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1. A group of countries in special alliance.
5. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
9. A Loloish language.
13. The bill in a restaurant.
16. A floor covering.
17. Belonging to some prior time.
18. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
19. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
20. Of legislation.
21. Inclined to or serving for the giving of names.
23. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
25. Type genus of the Timaliidae.
27. A populous province in northeastern China.
28. Being one more than one.
29. An anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers.
31. Ask for or request earnestly.
33. Of or relating to Slavic languages.
35. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
37. Someone in love with themselves.
40. An expression of greeting.
41. Someone who ascends.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
49. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
50. An African amulet.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
57. Made of fir or pine.
58. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
59. Wearing or provided with clothing.
60. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
61. The compass point that is midway between north and northwest.
62. Of or in or relating to the nose.
64. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
66. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
69. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
72. Cause to ripen.
73. Put (something) is a place for storage.
75. French philosopher and theologian.
77. An adult member of the Boy Scouts movement.
80. The overhead upper surface of a room.
82. A short film and commentary about current events.
84. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
88. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
89. Invalid or incorrect reasoning.
91. Suitable for use as food.
92. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
93. A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England.
94. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
96. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
97. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
98. A person who puts finishing edges on a garment.
99. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
100. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
3. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
4. Curving inward.
5. of or relating to poetry.
6. A branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages.
7. One million periods per second.
8. Remorse for your past conduct.
9. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
10. Beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae.
11. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century.
12. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
13. The capital of Nationalist China.
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
15. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
28. Any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors.
30. A state in New England.
32. A colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon.
34. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness.
36. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
38. Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found.
39. Wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft.
42. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
43. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
44. Capable of existing or taking place or proving true.
47. Lower in esteem.
51. Any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind.
53. A genus of Tettigoniidae.
55. A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
63. A substance derived from amygdalin.
65. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
67. A family of birds of the suborder Oscines.
68. Large Indian antelope.
70. The front limb of a quadruped.
71. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
74. (used informally) Completely unclothed.
76. Bur marigolds.
78. Perfume esp. with a censer.
79. Young owl.
81. Make oneself subject to.
83. A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.
85. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
86. English essayist (1775-1834).
87. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
90. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
95. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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