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1. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
4. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
12. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. A light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
19. A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. A city in northern India.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
30. 1/10 gram.
32. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. Adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing.
39. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
41. A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.
44. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
45. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
47. The capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti.
49. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
50. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
52. The second largest state.
53. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
55. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
56. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
57. A person who makes use of a thing.
58. A meeting of spiritualists.
60. An expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb.
62. Make attractive or lovable.
65. (electronics) Designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels.
67. Lighted by moonlight.
69. Tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper.
73. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
74. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
77. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
78. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
79. Of or relating to or composed of fat.
81. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
82. A doctor's degree in education.
83. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
5. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
6. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
7. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
8. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
9. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
13. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
14. Advanced in years.
21. Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
31. Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi bodies (1844-1926).
33. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
35. A primeval personification of air and breath.
36. God of wisdom or prophesy.
37. Something lost (especially money lost at gambling).
38. A card game similar to ecarte.
40. The general activity of selling.
42. The branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light.
43. A musical composition written for six performers.
46. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
48. An analgesic for mild pain.
51. The doctrine that ideas are the only reality.
54. Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded.
59. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
61. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
63. A trap for birds or small mammals.
64. Treated or impregnated with a foreign substance.
66. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
68. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
70. A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward.
71. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
72. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
75. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
76. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
80. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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