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1. Continuing or remaining in a place or state.
5. Freshwater green algae.
11. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
15. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
16. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Feeling or showing anger.
19. Relating to or near the ulna.
20. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
21. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
23. British informal term.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
36. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. A radioactive transuranic element.
42. The beginning of anything.
44. Dependent on chance.
47. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
49. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
50. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
51. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
52. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese.
53. A slender double-reed instrument.
55. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
57. Long and thin and often limp.
58. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
61. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
62. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
64. A light touch or stroke.
66. A choice or delicious dish.
72. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
76. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
80. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
81. Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods.
83. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
84. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
85. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
86. God of the underworld.
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1. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
2. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
3. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high).
5. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
6. Escape, either physically or mentally.
7. Big-eyed scad.
8. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
9. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
10. (British) Diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines (from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)).
11. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
14. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
22. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
33. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
34. Having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence.
35. Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship.
37. Relieve from military service.
39. Used especially in treating bruises.
41. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
43. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. God of the Underworld.
48. A large fleet.
54. Normal relaxed breathing.
56. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. The cry made by sheep.
67. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
68. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
69. (nontechnical usage) A tiny piece of anything.
70. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
71. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
73. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
74. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
75. Type genus of the Anatidae.
77. (informal) Of the highest quality.
78. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
79. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
82. An informal term for a father.
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