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1. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
4. (Old Testament) An ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants.
12. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
15. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
16. Move out of an unsafe location into safety.
17. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else.
20. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
22. The official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body.
24. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
25. Malicious burning to destroy property.
26. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
27. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
29. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
31. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
33. (informal) Of the highest quality.
34. Oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines.
37. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
39. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
42. The act of scanning.
43. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
48. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
49. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
53. Being one more than one.
54. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
57. Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
61. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
62. An Eskimo hut.
64. A Mid-Atlantic state.
65. An Eskimo hut.
67. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
70. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
72. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
75. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
77. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
79. A unit of pain intensity.
80. Water frozen in the solid state.
81. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
83. The longest division of geological time.
84. A doctor's degree in education.
85. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
86. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. A state in the western United States.
2. Type genus of the Hylidae.
3. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
4. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
5. Get excessively and undesirably hot.
6. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
7. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
8. A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.
9. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
13. A member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast.
14. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
21. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
23. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
28. Any thick messy substance.
30. Make attractive or lovable.
32. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
35. Of or relating to or near the nares.
36. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
38. An expression of greeting.
40. The state of owing money.
41. A line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle.
44. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
46. Black tropical American cuckoo.
50. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
51. Habitually reserved and uncommunicative.
52. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
55. Worn until no longer useful.
56. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
66. Extremely cold.
68. Any competition.
69. A vigorous blow.
71. On or toward the lee.
73. Very close and convivial.
74. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
76. An accountant certified by the state.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
82. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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