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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. A wound made by cutting.
9. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
13. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. A form of Japanese poetry.
18. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
19. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
23. Australasian kingfishers.
25. American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792).
27. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
28. The capital of Morocco.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
30. Informal terms for a mother.
31. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
32. North African gerbils.
34. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
38. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
41. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
44. A state in the eastern United States.
45. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
47. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
51. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
56. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
57. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
60. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
61. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
63. Away from the mouth or oral region.
65. A city in northwestern Turkey.
67. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
69. (informal) Rural and uncouth.
70. Combining form.
71. Used especially of mail.
73. Goddess of love and fecundity.
75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
76. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
82. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
86. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
87. Of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia.
91. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
92. The act of using.
93. God of fire.
95. A period of time spent sleeping.
96. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
97. Wearing footgear.
98. Stalk of a moss capsule.
99. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
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1. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
4. Aroused to impatience or anger.
5. A local computer network for communication between computers.
6. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
7. A natural protective covering of the body.
8. In a subordinate position.
9. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
12. A special loved one.
13. The fifth month of the civil year.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
15. A loud raucous cry as of an awl.
22. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
24. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
26. A severe or trying experience.
33. Instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal.
35. An instinctive motive.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. Owned up to.
39. Disappear gradually.
40. A person with the same name as another.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
43. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. (archaic) A burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle).
50. The vein in the center of a leaf.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. A horse-drawn carriage in India.
54. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
55. (British) Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms.
58. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
59. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
62. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
64. The quantity broken.
66. German romantic poet (1787-1862).
68. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
72. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
74. The posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical.
77. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
78. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
80. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
81. Type genus of the Anatidae.
83. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
84. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
85. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
88. The residue that remains when something is burned.
89. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
90. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
91. That is to say.
94. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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