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1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
9. The emotion of hate.
13. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
16. Gone by.
17. Take away the weapons from.
18. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
19. Something that remunerates.
20. (computer science) A secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu.
22. (Irish) God of love and beauty.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
25. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
27. Convert code into ordinary language.
29. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
31. Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit.
32. The act of detecting something.
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
36. Fallow deer.
40. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
41. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
44. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
47. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
52. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
53. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
55. A sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes.
56. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
57. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
58. French novelist.
60. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
61. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
65. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
67. Half the width of an em.
70. (Irish) The sea personified.
71. The eleventh month of the civil year.
73. A line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government.
77. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
80. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
83. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. Characteristic of false pride.
91. The airforce of Great Britain.
93. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
94. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
95. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
96. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
97. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
98. United States actor (born in Ireland).
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1. A fastener for a door or lid.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
4. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
5. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradually heating and cooling.
6. An island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
10. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
11. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak.
12. Razor clams.
13. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
15. The eighth month of the civil year.
21. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
26. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
28. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
30. A bottle with a stopper.
33. A musical composition in several movements.
35. Any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads.
37. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
38. Of or relating to the substance that forms a sheath around the axon of some nerve fibers.
39. Dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae.
43. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
45. Short and fat.
46. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
48. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
51. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
59. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
62. A skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton.
63. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
66. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
68. The month following March and preceding May.
69. Made with sleeves or sleeves especially as specified.
70. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
72. Trace the shape of.
74. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
75. A member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California.
76. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
78. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
79. Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north.
81. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
82. The face of a timepiece.
83. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
84. The habitation of wild animals.
85. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
86. Again but in a new or different way.
88. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
89. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. An informal term for a father.
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