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1. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
4. A viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder.
12. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
15. Towards the side away from the wind.
16. In the process of being born or beginning.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
19. A clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office).
20. Of or relating to or involving an area.
22. Supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak.
24. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
25. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
26. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
29. Capable of wounding.
31. That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings.
32. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
36. Before noon.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
40. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
45. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
49. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
51. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
52. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
70. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
71. Fallow deer.
74. Of or relating to James I or his reign or times.
76. A man who serves as a sailor.
77. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
78. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
81. A small vessel for travel on water.
82. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
83. A deep bow.
84. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
2. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
3. (Norse mythology) An enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin.
4. An ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidney and so results in vasodilation.
5. Away from the mouth or oral region.
6. A line made of twisted fibers or threads.
7. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
8. Of or relating to inertia.
9. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation.
10. Not out.
11. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
12. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
21. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
23. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
27. A mountainous region in central Italy.
28. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
30. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
34. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
35. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
41. A genus of Mustelidae.
42. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
43. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
46. 16 ounces.
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. 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.
50. Edible mushroom.
55. City in northeast Pakistan.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
63. Obvious and dull.
64. State in northeastern India.
65. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
67. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
69. (Greek mythology) The supreme god of ancient mythology.
72. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
73. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
79. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
80. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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