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1. South African term for `boss'.
5. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
9. A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.
13. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. Not fake or counterfeit.
17. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
18. The capital of Western Samoa.
19. A castrated tomcat.
20. A human female who does housework.
21. A defendant in a criminal proceeding.
23. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828).
27. Lower in esteem.
28. Being one more than one.
29. A slight amount or degree of difference.
31. An empire in South Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
33. A streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine.
38. An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers.
42. An iconic mental representation.
43. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
47. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
51. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
52. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
53. An inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician.
54. One of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind.
55. Provide with a terrace, as of a house.
58. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
60. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
61. Residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery).
62. A primeval personification of air and breath.
63. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
64. By bad luck.
65. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
67. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
69. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
72. The capital of the state of Maine.
75. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
76. Common gray wild goose of Europe.
79. A domain in which something is dominant.
82. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
84. A large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout.
88. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
89. Gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth.
91. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
92. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
93. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
95. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
96. A notable achievement.
97. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
98. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
99. Type genus of the Nepidae.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A beckoning gesture.
2. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. An elaborate and systematic plan of action.
5. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
6. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
7. (informal) Very tired.
8. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
9. Large elongated compressed food fish of European Atlantic waters.
10. In the direction against a stream's current.
11. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
12. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
15. A slender double-reed instrument.
22. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
25. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
28. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements.
30. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
32. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
34. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.
35. Any road or path affording passage especially a rough one.
36. Pass by, as of time.
37. An unforeseen obstacle.
39. King of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where is was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC).
40. Showing lack of attention or boredom.
41. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
44. A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.
48. Resembling a beast.
49. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
50. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
56. Arousing or provoking laughter.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
66. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
68. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. An engagement fought between two military forces.
71. One of two official languages of Norway.
72. Take in solid food.
73. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
74. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
77. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
78. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
79. A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
80. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
81. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
83. Avatar of Vishnu.
85. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
86. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
87. A quantity of no importance.
90. A small drink of liquor.
94. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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