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3 letters

TEA
A light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes; "an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea"

RAE

NIN

OTT

EAR
The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium

ALE
A general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume

NBA

4 letters

JOEL
An Old Testament book telling Joel's prophecies

MAUD

LAND
Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"

ESIO

BRER

ANDY

ENZO

FAME
Favorable public reputation

SETS

FIND
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

MINI
A very short skirt

KNEE
Joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

CITY
People living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994"

TODD
Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907)

VERA

CHOP
A grounder that bounces high in the air

POLO
A game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball

ERIC

DEEP
Literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"

CANE
A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

HOUR
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"

MARC
Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing

BUGS

ALBA

STAN

FREE
People who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"

TONY

IAIN

BEEF
Cattle that are reared for their meat

ANEW
Again but in a new or different way; "start afresh"; "wanted to write the story anew"; "starting life anew in a fresh place"

STAR
The topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub

DEAR
A sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)

KRIS
A Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

LEON
A city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains

ABEL
(Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain

KIRK
A Scottish church

DEAD
People who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

JAKE

5 letters

SOUTH
The region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line

JANET

GERRY

SPICE
Any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food

STAGE
A section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"

ZEPPO
United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1901-1979)

EBONY
Tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork

ANTON

BLACK
(board games) the darker pieces

FRANK
A member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century

KNOCK
Knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"

ROBIN
Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast

NAKED
Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"

HENRY
United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)

EDDIE

OUTER
Being on the outside or further from a center; "spent hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs"

CAPRA
Goats

PETER
Obscene terms for penis

JULEP
Bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice

CANAL
Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

BATOR

TRAIL
Evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"

ONPOP

TABLE
A set of data arranged in rows and columns; "see table 1"

DURAN

STRIP
A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"

AMEMO

BERYL
The chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems

RODDY

ELMER

6 letters

GROUND
The first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface

EPONYM
The name derived from a person (real or imaginary); "Down's syndrome is an eponym for the English physician John Down"

MOTHER
Care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband"

BEARIS

BUTLER
English poet (1612-1680)

MINDED
(usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward; "he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; "I am not minded to answer any questions"

DEWITT

7 letters

THEMARK

MARRIED
A person who is married; "we invited several young marrieds"

AMEMOIR

ASHESTO

BATTING
(baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base

PROVERB
A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

THELADY

ANEARLY

TROUBLE
An effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"

TWOOFUS

AWEEKIN

DOLORES

THEREAL

8 letters

INTEREST
A reason for wanting something done; "for your sake"; "died for the sake of his country"; "in the interest of safety"; "in the common interest"

SERGEANT
A lawman with the rank of sergeant

GENERALS

9 letters

LUSITANIA
Ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain

MIDDLETON
English playwright and pamphleteer (1570-1627)