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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
12. A humorous play on words.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton.
17. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. At or near the north pole.
20. An island in the Persian Gulf.
22. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
23. A genus of Indriidae.
26. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
27. (Greek mythology) Monster with nine heads.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
32. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
33. French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923).
35. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. Noisy talk.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
47. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
51. An artificial language proposed as an auxiliary European language.
54. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
56. A state of abeyance or suspended business.
57. Given to avoiding association with others.
60. Type genus of the family Ostreidae.
61. Herbs, shrubs and trees.
63. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
64. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
65. A person who worships idols.
71. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
72. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
75. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
76. Very dark black.
77. A difficult entangling situation.
79. An advanced law degree.
80. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
81. Temporarily inactive.
82. Bark in a high-pitched tone.
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1. A low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
2. An orderly arrangement.
3. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
4. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
6. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
7. (usually plural) A destructive action.
8. Being nine more than forty.
9. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
10. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
11. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
12. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
13. A city in central New York.
14. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
19. Pacific newts.
21. A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.
24. A state in the eastern United States.
25. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
28. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
30. A radioactive transuranic element.
34. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
36. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
39. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
40. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
41. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
48. Repetition or recapitulation in reverse order.
49. More of the same adv.
50. A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.
52. A reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality.
53. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
55. Very large white gannet with black wing tips.
58. Containing salt.
59. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
62. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
66. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
67. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
68. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil.
69. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
70. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
73. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
74. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
78. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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