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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. The aggregation of a country's military aircraft.
17. Fiddler crabs.
18. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
19. A synthetic type of penicillin antibiotic (trade name Pipracil) used for moderate to severe infections.
20. Tag the base runner to get him out.
21. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
23. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
25. A short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung).
28. Become less tense.
29. Any lichen of the genus Lecanora.
32. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
35. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
36. Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.
37. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
39. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
40. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
42. Being derived from.
44. In bed.
46. A state in midwestern United States.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
52. Given to avoiding association with others.
53. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
56. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
58. The residue that remains when something is burned.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
65. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
67. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
70. A small amount of residue.
72. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
74. A loose cloak with a hood.
76. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
77. The shape of a bell.
80. Preserve of crushed fruit.
81. A condition requiring relief.
82. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
2. Cheese containing a blue mold.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set.
5. Someone who operates an aircraft.
6. Bark in a high-pitched tone.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. A major god.
9. A region of northern France on the English Channel.
10. A French river.
11. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
12. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
13. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
22. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
24. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
26. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
27. God of the Underworld.
30. United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971).
31. One of the dwelling units in a condominium.
33. The place where some action occurs.
34. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
38. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
41. The act of delivering a blow with the foot.
43. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
45. With no effort to conceal.
47. Affected manners intended to impress others.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. An informal term for a father.
54. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
55. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
57. How long something has existed.
59. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
60. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) From that fact or reason or as a result.
61. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. Slightly open.
69. A Russian river.
71. A Hindu prince or king in India.
73. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
75. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
78. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
79. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
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