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1. Extremely pleasing.
4. Be earlier in time.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. (Irish) The sea personified.
16. A frequently prescribed benzodiazepine (trade name Restoril).
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A rapid bustling commotion.
19. Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975).
20. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. Cast again, in a different role.
23. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
25. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
26. The seed of the cereal grass.
28. An informal term for a father.
30. 1/10 gram.
31. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
33. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
37. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
41. 10 grams.
42. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. Diverge from the expected.
47. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison.
51. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
52. An implement used to erase something.
53. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925).
54. Restrain or bind with chains.
58. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
59. A state in midwestern United States.
60. A unit of potential equal to a thousand volts.
61. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
62. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
65. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
67. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
70. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
73. Any movable possession (especially articles of clothing).
76. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
78. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
79. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
80. A person who makes measurements.
82. A light touch or stroke.
83. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
84. The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A shape that spreads outward.
2. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
3. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
4. Weapons considered collectively.
5. Neither moral nor immoral.
6. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
7. A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
8. Informal terms for a human head.
9. A large fleet.
10. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
11. Late time of life.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. The month following July and preceding September.
24. An associate degree in applied science.
27. United States baseball player (born 1925).
29. A jamb for a door.
32. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
34. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
35. Of or concerning Qatar.
36. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
38. (in Scotland) A child.
39. Transient cessation of respiration.
40. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
43. The second month of the civil year.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. A motley assortment of things.
48. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
49. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
50. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
55. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
56. Wild ginger.
57. Type genus of the Viperidae.
63. A person who gives a name or names.
64. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
66. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
68. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
69. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
74. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
75. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
77. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
81. An associate degree in nursing.
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