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1. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
4. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
9. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
18. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
19. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
20. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
22. Secondary or explanatory title.
25. Type genus of the Phocidae.
26. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
27. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
28. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
30. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
32. The nest of a squirrel.
34. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
39. A domain in which something is dominant.
41. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
43. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
45. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. A state in midwestern United States.
47. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.
50. Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines.
51. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
54. Jordan's port.
55. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
56. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
57. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
59. Become gelatinous.
62. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
64. On or toward the lee.
65. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
66. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
69. Make famous for ever.
71. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
72. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
75. A city of central China.
76. Having the same or similar characteristics.
77. A New England state.
80. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
84. (Babylonian) The sky god.
89. A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal.
91. Large scissors with strong blades.
92. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
93. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
94. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
96. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
97. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
98. Humorously sarcastic or mocking.
99. New Zealand conifer.
100. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
101. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. An inhabitant of Lappland.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. Australian evergreen shrubs.
4. A Nilotic language.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. Interchanging the positions of the king and a rook.
7. A fit of shivering.
8. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
9. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
10. A port city in southwestern Iran.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
13. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
14. The top edge of a vessel.
15. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
21. Absence of gastric juices (partial or complete).
23. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
24. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A state in southeastern United States.
33. A merchant who sells goods at retail.
35. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
36. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
37. The state of being behind in payments.
38. Adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing.
40. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
42. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
44. Refrain from voting.
48. A Hindu prince or king in India.
49. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
52. A diacritical mark (u-curved) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound.
53. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
61. Assembly possessing high legislative powers.
63. Someone employed by a gas company.
67. Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.
68. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
70. A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger.
73. A dark purplish red.
74. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
78. Indigo bush.
79. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
81. The eighth month of the civil year.
82. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
83. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
85. (informal) Very tired.
86. Avatar of Vishnu.
87. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
88. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
90. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
91. Water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs.
95. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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