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1. The rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing).
4. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
8. A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance).
12. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Using speech rather than writing.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
19. Make editorial changes (in a text).
20. Remove from the bar.
22. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
23. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
24. The beginning or early stages.
26. One of the three prairie provinces in western Canada.
28. Deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers.
30. A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement.
31. Goddess of love and fecundity.
33. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
37. Unknown god.
39. An informal term for a father.
43. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
45. A peninsula in southwestern Europe.
47. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
48. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
50. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
52. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
53. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
54. Famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769).
56. Resin of the kauri trees of N Zealand.
58. The state of being contaminated.
60. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
63. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
64. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
65. A garment that covers the head and face.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
72. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
75. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
79. Highly excited.
80. In a cagey manner.
81. Having a smooth, gleaming surface.
82. Most important element.
84. To some (great or small) extent.
86. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
87. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
88. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
90. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
93. The bill in a restaurant.
94. Used of a single unit or thing.
95. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
96. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
97. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried.
2. American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814).
3. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range.
4. A short close-fitting coat.
5. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
6. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
7. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
8. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
9. (informal) Of the highest quality.
10. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
11. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
12. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. Made of packed earth or gravel.
15. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
21. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.
25. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
27. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
29. An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor.
32. African antelopes.
34. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
35. Congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes.
36. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
38. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
40. A particular environment or walk of life.
41. Use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens.
42. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
44. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
46. The basic unit of money in Peru.
49. Prepared by cutting.
51. Fulfil the requirements or expectations of.
55. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
57. (usually plural) A destructive action.
59. A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing.
61. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
62. (music) Of a stringed instrument.
63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (born in 1902).
67. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
70. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
71. A French river.
73. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
74. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
76. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
77. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
78. Jordan's port.
83. 32nd President of the United States.
85. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
89. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
91. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
92. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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