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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Having or resembling a stinger or barb.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. A building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. A medium for oil-paints.
20. A hidden drawback.
21. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
22. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
23. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
25. Singing jazz.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. The capital of Lesotho.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
39. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
41. A wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay.
45. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
47. Very dark gray.
49. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
53. Big-eyed scad.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. Of or relating to or characteristic of the republic of Haiti or its people.
57. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
58. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
60. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
62. A genus of Ploceidae.
64. A plant fiber used for making rope.
65. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
68. A young woman making her debut into society.
71. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
72. Armor plate that protects the chest.
76. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
77. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
79. Small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings.
82. A master's degree in business.
83. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
84. A disposition to remain inactive or inert.
85. A decree that prohibits something.
86. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
87. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Fallow deer.
2. A city in northwestern Syria.
3. A Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan.
4. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
5. A message written in a secret code.
6. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
7. A speech that is open to the public.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. An honorary arts degree.
10. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
11. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
12. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
13. Common Indian weaverbird.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
24. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
26. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. A man who courts a woman.
32. Beyond what is natural.
34. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
36. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
37. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
38. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
40. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
42. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
43. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
44. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
48. Of or relating to a creed.
50. A genus of Strigidae.
51. King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).
52. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
56. Goddess of fertility.
59. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators.
61. Being one more than ten.
63. A person forced to flee from home or country.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
73. Encircle or bind.
74. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
75. Having a long narrow cut.
78. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
80. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
81. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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