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1. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
4. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
11. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
15. (Babylonian) The sky god.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
17. Imagined as in a play.
18. Any of a group of storm gods.
20. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. Eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease.
24. A licensed medical practitioner.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. English comic actor (1925-1980).
30. A doctor's degree in optometry.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
39. Rich in decorative detail.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. Poisonous herbs.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
50. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
51. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
53. The probability of a specified outcome.
55. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
56. Charming in a childlike or naive way.
58. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
60. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
61. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
63. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
64. A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman.
66. Loud confused noise from many sources.
69. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
73. Earlier a god.
74. Squash bugs.
77. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
78. Type genus of the Suidae.
79. A bar of sand.
81. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
82. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
83. A genus of Stromateidae.
84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Verbal abuse.
2. Complacently or inanely foolish.
3. Of or relating to walls.
4. Damaged by decay.
5. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
6. A pair of people who live together.
7. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
9. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
10. French general who became Emperor of the French (1769-1821).
11. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. The eighth month of the civil year.
19. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo.
23. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
25. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
28. Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded.
29. Enclosed by a confining fence.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
33. Necessary for relief or supply.
35. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
36. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
37. Informal terms for a mother.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
41. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
45. A doctor's degree in education.
47. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
49. A member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids.
52. A town twenty miles east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name).
54. A town in northern Egypt.
57. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
59. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
62. Type genus of Ursidae.
65. A form of Japanese poetry.
67. Remove from office.
68. A Loloish language.
70. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
71. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
72. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
75. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
76. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
80. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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