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1. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
5. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
9. A traditional story accepted as history.
13. Not divisible by two.
16. Using speech rather than writing.
17. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
20. (optics) Having two foci.
21. Of an instrument of certain death.
23. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
24. Speaking a Slavic language.
25. Of or relating to or containing basalt.
28. A young woman making her debut into society.
30. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
31. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
33. In a cagey manner.
36. Before noon.
37. A light touch or stroke.
40. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
45. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
47. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
49. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
50. A fraudulent business scheme.
55. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
56. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
57. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
59. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
60. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
61. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
63. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
65. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
69. Of or belonging to an aecium.
71. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
75. Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
81. A severe blow v 1.
84. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
86. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
87. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
88. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
89. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
92. An insane person.
94. (British) Your grandmother.
95. A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles.
96. An inhabitant of Lappland.
98. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
99. An udder or breast or teat.
100. American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
101. Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991).
102. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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1. A large number or amount.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. An ancient city in southern Bulgaria.
5. Covered with scabs.
6. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
7. Being nine more than ninety.
8. A deep bow.
9. Not reflecting light.
10. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
11. Derived by copying something else.
12. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
13. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
14. Material used to daub walls.
15. A small amount of residue.
22. Late time of life.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
29. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
32. An informal term for a father.
34. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
35. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
38. Type genus of the Sciuridae.
39. Shockingly repellent.
41. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
42. (informal) Roused to anger.
43. A married German woman.
44. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
46. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
48. Of a pale purple color.
51. Sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
52. The basic unit of money in Romania.
53. Any loose flowing garment.
54. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
58. The square of a body of any size of type.
62. The third month of the civil year.
64. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the keel of a ship.
68. Tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers.
69. Covered with scabs.
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. 1 species.
73. Not easily borne.
74. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
75. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
76. (of soil) Soft and watery.
77. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
78. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
79. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
82. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
83. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
85. The nest of a squirrel.
90. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
91. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
93. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
97. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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