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1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
5. A clam that is usually steamed in the shell.
12. Pan with a convex bottom.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
20. The capital and principal port of Tunisia.
21. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
22. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
23. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
24. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
29. The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet.
31. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
33. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
34. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
35. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
39. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
42. American novelist (1909-1955).
47. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
48. Of or relating to a creed.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
54. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
55. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
58. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
60. A quantity of no importance.
62. Largest known toad species.
65. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
66. Sweet dark purple plum.
69. Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886).
73. An oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract of urinary tract or bones or joints.
74. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
76. Powerfully or vigorously.
78. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
79. A category in some early taxonomies.
82. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
83. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
84. A kiln used to reduce naturally occuring forms of calcium carbonate to lime.
85. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind.
2. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
5. Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp.
6. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
7. After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'.
8. Sharpness of vision.
9. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
10. English essayist (1775-1834).
11. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
12. Misery resulting from affliction.
13. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
14. Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924).
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
28. To fix or set securely or deeply.
30. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
32. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
36. A city in northern India.
37. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
43. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
44. An island of central Hawaii.
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. A unit of weight used in Asia.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
56. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
57. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
59. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
61. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
63. Of great mass.
64. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
67. (trademark) An acrylic fiber or the lightweight crease-resistant fabric made with Orlon yarns.
68. English poet (1880-1958).
70. Great in vertical dimension.
71. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
72. Not final or absolute.
75. Being one more than two.
77. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
80. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
81. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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