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1. The 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
4. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
11. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. The act of competing as for profit or a prize.
17. Toward the mouth or oral region.
18. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
20. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
21. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
22. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
24. Relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A city in Tuscany.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
34. Sour or bitter in taste.
36. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
42. Continually complaining or faultfinding.
44. A periodic paperback publication.
45. A state in midwestern United States.
46. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
47. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
48. A sign of something about to happen.
52. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
53. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
56. Being two more than fifty.
57. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
58. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
64. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
66. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
70. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. A port city in southwestern Iran.
76. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
77. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
78. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
80. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
81. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
82. An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic.
83. An informal term for a father.
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1. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
4. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
6. Bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels.
7. A country on the island of Jamaica.
8. Pass by, as of time.
9. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
10. A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind.
11. Letter carrier's shoulder bag.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
23. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
25. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
33. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.
35. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
37. The brightest star in Orion.
38. Related on the mother's side.
39. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
41. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
43. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
49. Emperor of Rome who introduced a degree of freedom after the repressive reign of Domitian.
50. Bubble shells.
51. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
54. French artist who immigrated to the United States.
59. A South American river.
60. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925).
62. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
65. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
67. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
68. Little known Kamarupan languages.
69. (prefix) Within.
71. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
72. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
75. The products of human creativity.
79. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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