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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
12. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Be central or dominant.
17. Adult female chicken.
18. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
19. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
22. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
24. An informal term for a father.
26. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
28. Having three units or components or elements.
29. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
40. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
45. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
46. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
48. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
50. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
51. A Swiss house.
54. Husk of a pea.
56. A man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction.
57. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
58. An informal term for a father.
59. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
60. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
62. A Hindu prince or king in India.
65. A mountainous island in western Indonesia.
68. Metal supports for logs in a fireplace.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. The feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced.
76. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
77. An honorary law degree.
78. Lacking motor coordination.
80. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
81. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
82. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
2. Soft creamy white cheese.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
5. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
6. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.
7. Toward the mouth or oral region.
8. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
9. A strong emotion.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
12. Someone who has won first place in a competition.
13. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
14. Complacently or inanely foolish.
21. An African amulet.
23. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
25. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. Make or become free of frost or ice.
35. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
36. By bad luck.
37. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
38. A spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others.
39. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
42. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
44. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
47. Made by hand or a hand process.
49. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
52. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
53. To that.
55. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
61. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
63. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
64. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
66. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
67. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
69. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. Offering fun and gaiety.
74. Water frozen in the solid state.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
79. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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