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1. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
12. The residue that remains when something is burned.
15. (Babylonian) The sky god.
16. A 10% solution of formaldehyde in water.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A passage with access only at one end.
19. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. Toward the mouth or oral region.
23. Rate of revolution of a motor.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
28. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
31. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
32. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
33. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
37. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
43. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
45. A master's degree in business.
47. A member of a panel.
50. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
53. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
54. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
55. Disparaging terms for small people.
58. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
59. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
62. An accountant certified by the state.
63. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
65. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
66. A region and ancient country in the east of the Balkan Peninsula north of the Aegean Sea.
68. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
73. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
76. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
77. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
80. A boy or man.
81. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
82. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
84. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
85. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
86. Any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers.
87. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
2. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
3. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
4. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
5. United States writer (1870-1902).
6. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
7. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression.
8. Having much flesh (especially fat).
9. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
10. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
14. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
22. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
25. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
27. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
29. Be interwoven or interconnected.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
34. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
35. Become imbued.
36. East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed.
38. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
40. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. Half the width of an em.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
48. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
49. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
51. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
52. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
56. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
57. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
60. Baby bed with high sides.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
64. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
67. Jordan's port.
69. Willing to face danger.
70. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
71. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
72. (prefix) Within.
74. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
75. The sixth month of the civil year.
78. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
79. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
83. The square of a body of any size of type.
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