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1. Select as an alternative.
4. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
12. God of the underworld.
15. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
16. A turn made in skiing.
17. Any high mountain.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
20. Paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office).
22. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
24. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
26. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
29. Framework for holding objects.
30. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
33. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
35. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
37. Bourbon with bitters and Pernod and sugar served with lemon peel.
42. A genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand.
46. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
47. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
48. British informal term.
49. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
51. The bill in a restaurant.
52. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
54. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
56. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
58. A solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print.
59. A catch for locking a door.
62. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
63. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
64. Usually good-naturedly mischievous.
67. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
69. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
73. An underwater mountain rising above the ocean floor.
75. (combining form) Former.
77. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
78. Be seated.
79. The act of reproducing recorded sound.
82. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
83. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
84. Low tree ferns with large fronds.
85. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Type genus of the Pipidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
5. Rate of revolution of a motor.
6. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. Before noon.
9. A support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute).
10. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
11. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
12. Indigo bush.
13. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
14. A slap with the flat of the hand.
21. United by being of the same opinion.
23. Lower in esteem.
25. Black tropical American cuckoo.
31. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
32. A ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority.
34. The wife or widow of a czar.
36. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
38. Advanced in years.
39. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
40. Make less active or intense.
41. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
43. Being six more than fifty.
44. Sour or bitter in taste.
45. Oil palms.
50. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
53. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
55. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.
57. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
60. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
61. Of a leaf shape.
65. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
66. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
68. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. Tropical Asian starlings.
72. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
74. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
76. Being one more than ninety.
80. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
81. Unknown god.
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