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1. Noisy talk.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Assam or its people or culture.
12. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
15. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
16. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. Someone given to disputes over words.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
23. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
29. A person who eats human flesh.
33. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
37. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
40. Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other.
41. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
44. Solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure.
45. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
47. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
48. Female ruff v 1.
50. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
52. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. A Russian river.
58. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
59. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
62. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
64. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
67. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
69. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
73. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
79. Sturdy annual of Peru.
81. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
82. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
83. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
84. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
4. Of or related to aplite.
5. A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable.
6. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
7. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
8. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
9. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
10. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
11. A colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs.
12. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
13. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. Small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia Tibet and Mongolia.
24. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
31. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
35. Read anew.
36. The segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British).
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A fraudulent business scheme.
42. A genus of Ploceidae.
43. In addition.
46. A Mid-Atlantic state.
49. Of or relating the the Vedas or to the ancient Sanskrit in which they were written.
51. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
54. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
55. Water frozen in the solid state.
57. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
61. Any system of principles or beliefs.
63. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
65. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
66. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.
68. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
70. A sudden short attack.
71. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
72. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
74. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
75. The compass point midway between west and northwest.
76. The airforce of Great Britain.
80. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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