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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
9. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
13. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
16. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
17. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
18. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
19. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
20. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
21. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
22. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
23. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. A Loloish language.
28. Before noon.
29. Greek mythology.
31. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
42. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
46. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
48. A blemish made by dirt.
49. A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations.
51. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
52. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets.
53. The capital of Croatia.
55. The back side of the neck.
56. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
57. An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal).
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
62. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
63. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
64. Axis of a compound leaf or compound inflorescence.
66. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
70. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
71. In an unnatural eery manner.
75. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
77. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
80. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
83. A tranquilizing drug (trade name Serax) used to treat anxiety and insomnia and alcohol withdrawal.
89. (`lief' is archaic) Very willing.
92. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (1895-1982).
93. The sixth month of the civil year.
94. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
96. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
97. Common Indian weaverbird.
98. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
99. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
100. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
5. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
6. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
7. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
8. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
9. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
10. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
11. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
12. A person who eats human flesh.
13. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
14. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
15. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
25. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic.
27. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
30. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. A state in northwestern North America.
33. Take revenge for a perceived wrong.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
36. Goatfishes or red mullets.
37. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
39. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
40. Primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull.
41. Painted beauty and red admiral.
43. A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs.
44. Cook in liquid.
45. A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law.
47. Kauri pine.
50. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
54. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
58. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
60. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
65. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
67. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
68. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
69. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
72. Lessen the density or solidity (of a substance).
73. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
74. A soft silvery metallic element.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
78. An island of central Hawaii.
79. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
81. Any spatial attribute (especially as defined by outline).
82. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
84. A genus of Mustelidae.
85. An informal term for a father.
86. On or toward the lee.
87. Fallow deer.
88. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
90. A periodic paperback publication.
91. The month following February and preceding April.
95. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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