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1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
5. Free from risk or danger.
9. Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
13. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
17. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
18. English essayist (1775-1834).
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
21. Of or relating to near the ear.
22. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
23. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
24. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
25. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
27. A state in New England.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A master's degree in fine arts.
31. A planner who draws up a personal scheme of action.
33. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
37. 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.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
42. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
48. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
49. The handle of a weapon or tool.
50. A slight wind (usually refreshing).
51. Give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
55. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
56. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
57. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
61. The largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda.
63. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
65. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.
68. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
69. A Mid-Atlantic state.
72. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. Love intensely.
79. Being nine more than forty.
85. A warning against certain acts.
87. Any taillike structure.
88. A city in northern India.
89. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
90. Heal or recover.
92. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
95. A boy or man.
96. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
97. A small cake leavened with yeast.
98. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
99. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
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1. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
2. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
3. Jordan's port.
4. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
5. A stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.
8. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
9. Freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail.
10. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. Ragout of game in a rich sauce.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
15. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
26. Small cold-water silvery fish.
28. The act of escaping physically.
32. Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955.
34. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
35. Relating to or involving the stomach.
36. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
40. A politician who is running for public office.
41. The hulled and crushed grain of various cereals.
43. A Loloish language.
44. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
45. A beckoning gesture.
46. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
47. Genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood.
53. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
54. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
58. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
59. A vigorous blow.
60. Toward the mouth or oral region.
62. A former British gold coin worth 21 chillings.
64. A large fleet.
66. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
67. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
70. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
71. Noisy talk.
73. A city in central Lithuania.
74. Of or relating to or involving an area.
76. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
78. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
80. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
81. God of love and erotic desire.
82. An Eskimo hut.
83. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
84. A quantity of no importance.
86. A bachelor's degree in theology.
91. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
93. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
94. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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