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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A loud harsh or strident noise.
11. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
15. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
16. Having or resembling a lobe or lobes.
17. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
18. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
20. Made from baking chocolate or cocoa powder and milk and sugar.
21. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
22. Jordan's port.
23. Woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia.
25. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
26. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
27. A state in southeastern United States.
31. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
35. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
38. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
39. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
40. A source of danger.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. The residue that remains when something is burned.
46. Term of address for a man.
47. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
50. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
52. Mollusk with a low conical shell.
53. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
55. The content of cognition.
56. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
59. Having winglike extensions.
60. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
62. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
64. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A tool for driving something with force.
76. Garlic mayonnaise.
77. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. A doctor's degree in education.
81. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
82. Common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America.
83. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
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1. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
2. One who works hard at boring tasks.
3. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
6. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
7. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. Covered with paving material.
9. Discharge from the external ear.
10. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
11. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Being one more than seven.
14. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. A soft silvery metallic element.
28. Predacious on other insects.
29. The act of scanning.
30. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
32. The basic unit of money in Spain.
33. Call forth.
34. A bottle with a stopper.
36. A structure supporting or containing something.
37. To run away.
41. The striking of one body against another.
44. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
45. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
48. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
49. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
51. Large Indian antelope.
54. Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru and founded Lima (1475-1541).
57. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. Unknown god.
61. Unpleasantly stern.
63. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
65. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
66. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
67. Witnessed at first hand.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
70. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
71. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
74. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
75. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
79. That is to say.
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