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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. A mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture).
11. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. Of or relating to or denoting numbers.
17. Wearing or provided with clothing.
18. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
19. Away from the mouth or oral region.
21. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
23. A mountain peak in central Washington.
25. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
27. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. Ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing.
33. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
37. (Roman mythology) The twin brother of Romulus.
39. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
40. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
41. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
43. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
47. The act of using.
48. Having leadership guidance.
50. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
52. Fiddler crabs.
53. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
55. A member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr peninsula in Siberia.
57. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
59. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
63. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
71. Oil palms.
73. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
75. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
76. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
77. French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851).
79. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
80. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
81. Characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment.
82. Not reflecting light.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
4. Type genus of the Anatidae.
5. A small lump or protuberance.
6. Inclined toward or displaying love.
7. Any plant of the genus Gerardia.
8. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
9. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
13. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
20. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. (Assyrian) Chief god of the Assyrians.
24. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
26. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
28. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
30. Used at the dining table.
31. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
34. A blemish on the skin formed before birth.
35. Any plant of the genus Erica.
36. Wood of a pecan tree.
38. Ragout of game in a rich sauce.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. A Russian river.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. Highly excited.
54. A song that was formerly popular.
56. In bed.
58. Nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry.
60. State in northeastern India.
61. Type genus of the Soleidae.
62. Selected as the best.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
65. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
66. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
68. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
69. A beautiful and graceful girl.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
72. An enclosed space.
74. A cgs unit of work or energy.
78. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
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