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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
15. A doctor's degree in education.
16. Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture.
17. Informal terms for a mother.
18. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
19. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
20. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
21. Jordan's port.
23. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
24. A genus of Mustelidae.
25. Athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training.
26. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
28. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
32. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
34. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
38. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
41. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
42. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
47. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
50. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
51. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
53. A three-tone Chadic language.
56. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
58. Someone whose business is advertising.
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
62. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
65. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
68. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
72. The Creator.
74. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
76. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
77. A recognizable kind.
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. Extremely pleasing.
81. A natural protective covering of the body.
82. The shape of a bell.
83. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
5. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
6. Chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy.
7. Place in a grave or tomb.
8. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
9. 1 species.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. Herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
12. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
13. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
14. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
22. The Indic language spoken in Bihar (and by some people in Pakistan and Bangladesh).
27. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
29. United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947).
30. A person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture.
31. A sign of something about to happen.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
36. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
37. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. Used of the language of the deaf.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
44. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
48. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
49. (informal) Of the highest quality.
52. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
54. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
55. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
57. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
60. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
63. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
64. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
66. A vessel that carries passengers or freight v 1.
67. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
71. A French abbot.
73. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
75. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
79. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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