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1. Domestic swine.
4. A major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts.
12. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
15. (Babylonian) The sky god.
16. Too old to be useful.
17. Seed of a pea plant.
19. Cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit.
20. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
21. A small chin beard trimmed into a point.
23. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
24. Deciduous shrub of North America.
26. Alligator lizards.
28. Being one more than one.
30. A Loloish language.
31. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
32. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
34. Of or relating to a taxonomic order.
40. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
44. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
45. A transuranic element.
47. Goddess of dawn.
48. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
49. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
51. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
57. (Irish) The sea personified.
59. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
61. A kind of sideboard or buffet.
63. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
64. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
68. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
72. Being nine more than ninety.
74. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. Pleasantly occupied.
81. Jordan's port.
82. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
83. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
85. A decree that prohibits something.
86. Take in solid food.
87. Fix firmly or securely.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
2. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
3. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
4. A populous province in northeastern China.
5. Overgrown with ivy.
6. Remaining after all deductions.
7. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
8. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
9. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
10. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. A drama set to music.
13. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
14. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
22. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
25. Blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel.
27. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
29. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
33. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
35. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
36. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. Tag the base runner to get him out.
38. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
39. A linen tape used for trimming as a decoration.
41. God of wealth and love.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
46. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
50. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
52. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
60. A large and stately mansion.
62. A bridge partner who increases the partner's bid.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. Anything that serves as an enticement.
71. A primeval personification of air and breath.
73. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
75. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
76. A small cake leavened with yeast.
79. In or of the month preceding the present one.
80. A loud harsh or strident noise.
84. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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