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1. A port in southwestern Scotland.
4. Aromatic Eurasian perennial.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. The Russian imperial line that ruled from 1613 to 1917.
17. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
18. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
19. Administer baptism to.
20. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. Not reflecting light.
24. United States operatic soprano (1903-1972).
26. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
29. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
31. An agenda of things to do.
32. Make crunching noises.
36. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
40. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
41. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
51. An imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same.
53. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
56. Occurring earlier in time.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
58. Sour or bitter in taste.
60. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
61. An orderly pile.
64. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
65. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
68. Chorea in dogs.
73. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
74. A religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. In or of the month preceding the present one.
80. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
81. Seed of a pea plant.
82. A stay that supports the back of something.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. Not only so, but.
3. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
4. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
5. Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.
6. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
7. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
8. Black tropical American cuckoo.
9. Found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies.
10. (sports) With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level.
11. A Bantu language spoken in western Kenya.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
14. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
22. Make less visible or unclear.
25. Device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible.
27. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
28. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
30. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
33. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
34. Supply with battlements.
35. Old World woody vines.
37. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
42. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
43. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
45. A coffin along with its stand.
47. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
50. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
52. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
54. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
55. A recognizable kind.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
62. A town in northwestern Greenland.
63. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
66. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
67. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
69. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
70. Informal abbreviation of `gentleman'.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. God of love and erotic desire.
75. Considerate and solicitous care.
76. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
79. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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