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1. The unit of frequency.
4. Breed of sled dog developed in Alaska.
12. The month following September and preceding November.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. An orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing.
17. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
19. Temperamentally disinclined to talk.
20. The longest division of geological time.
21. Coins collectively.
23. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
24. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
26. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
29. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. Actually being performed (or--for the audience--present) at the time of viewing.
34. Knock unconscious or senseless.
39. Small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter.
41. Being one more than two.
42. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
44. Causing fear or dread or terror.
48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
49. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
50. A city in north-central India.
51. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. Fallow deer.
57. (prefix) Within.
60. A state in midwestern United States.
62. Call upon in supplication.
63. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
64. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
65. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
69. A fastener for a door or lid.
72. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
73. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
74. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
75. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. A quantity of no importance.
80. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
81. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
82. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
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1. People having the same social or economic status.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
4. Of or relating to or venerating the Virgin Mary.
5. On or toward the lee.
6. Provided with artificial light.
7. (chemistry) Relating to or containing the azido group N3.
8. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
9. Accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
10. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
11. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
12. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
13. Colloquial British abbreviation.
14. Make or emit a high tinkling sound.
22. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
25. A tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice.
27. Angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog.
28. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
32. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir.
33. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
35. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
36. Production of a certain amount.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
40. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
43. An unofficial association of people or groups.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. Trade name for a drug containing an antihistamine and a decongestant.
47. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
52. Determine the essential quality of.
53. A district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts.
56. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
58. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
59. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
61. Showing deterioration from age.
66. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
67. English monk and scholar (672-735).
68. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
70. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
71. A major god.
77. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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