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1. The capital and largest city of Japan.
4. Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair.
11. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
15. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
16. Someone who works with their hands.
17. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
18. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
20. (prefix) Within.
21. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
22. Barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions.
24. A blot made with ink.
26. Enthusiastic approval.
28. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
29. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
32. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
34. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
38. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
40. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. Cause to arise.
43. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
47. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
48. (informal) Of the highest quality.
50. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
52. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
54. Call together.
57. Covering designed to be worn on a person's body.
59. The basic unit of money in China.
61. Two items of the same kind.
62. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
65. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
67. A professional person authorized to practice law.
70. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
74. A city in central southwestern Iran.
75. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
80. A port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.
82. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
83. Step on it.
84. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
85. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
2. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Whiten with Blanco.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
7. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
8. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
9. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
10. Transfer to another.
11. A ribbon used as a decoration.
12. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
14. Immediately past.
19. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
27. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
30. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
31. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
33. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
35. A loud utterance.
36. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
37. (formal) A person who announces important news.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
45. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
49. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
55. A piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face.
56. A festival featuring African-American culture.
58. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
60. A pan used for frying foods.
63. A disreputable vagrant.
64. That is to say.
66. A particular environment or walk of life.
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
69. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
71. A quantity of no importance.
72. Very dark black.
73. An informal term for a father.
76. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
81. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
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