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1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. Plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks.
9. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
13. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
18. By bad luck.
19. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
20. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
21. Take hold of.
22. Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs (born in 1943).
24. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
26. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
28. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
30. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
31. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
33. Lie adjacent to another.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
40. Scratch and scrimp.
43. Deeply moved.
44. A pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. An unforeseen obstacle.
53. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
55. The piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located).
58. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
59. (British) Your grandmother.
60. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
62. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
64. Any of the salts of hydrobromic acid.
67. (British) A form of football played with an oval ball.
69. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
71. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
72. A person who makes use of a thing.
73. A Russian river.
75. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
77. Avatar of Vishnu.
78. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators.
80. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
81. An accountant certified by the state.
83. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
84. A family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales.
89. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
94. Russian country house.
95. Arranged in or consisting of laminae.
98. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
99. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
100. A genus of Platalea.
102. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
103. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
104. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
105. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
106. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail.
107. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Informal terms for money.
3. The content of cognition.
4. A humorous anecdote or remark.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. Elegant and stylish.
7. An industrial city in the European part of Russia.
8. An ice containing milk.
9. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
11. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
12. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
13. Similar or related in quality or character.
14. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
15. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
23. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
25. A long wooden bench with a back.
27. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
29. A tight-fitting headdress.
32. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
34. Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth.
35. A selfish actor who upstages the other actors.
37. An informal term for a father.
39. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
41. Covered with paving material.
42. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
45. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
46. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
52. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
54. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
56. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
57. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
61. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
63. The face of a timepiece.
65. A doctor's degree in optometry.
66. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
68. An African amulet.
70. United States film actress (born in Germany) who made many films with Josef von Sternberg and later was a successful cabaret star (1901-1992).
74. Of or relating to or located at the base.
75. An industrial city in the European part of Russia.
76. (informal) Of the highest quality.
79. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
80. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
82. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
85. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
86. Enthusiastic approval.
87. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
88. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
90. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
91. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
92. A Hindu prince or king in India.
93. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
96. An awkward stupid person.
97. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
101. A state in midwestern United States.
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