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1. To an excessive degree.
4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
17. Toward the mouth or oral region.
18. A genus of Ploceidae.
19. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
20. (law) Lacking any legal or binding force.
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
22. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
24. In a dingy manner.
26. Type genus of the Aphididae.
29. A deep bow.
31. Or or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism.
35. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
39. Flesh of any of various freshwater fishes of the families Centrarchidae of North America or Cyprinidae of Europe.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A container.
46. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
50. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
51. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
53. (used informally) Very small.
55. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
57. Imperial moths.
60. Maintain or assert.
61. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
65. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
67. Make known.
70. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
74. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
75. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
76. An instrument for measuring the distance between two points.
77. Towards the side away from the wind.
78. Not of long duration.
79. Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness.
80. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
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1. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A severe or trying experience.
4. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. Razor clams.
7. (prefix) Within.
8. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
9. A port city in southwestern Iran.
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. Agile grizzled Old World viverrine.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
14. In an idle manner.
23. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
25. Tag the base runner to get him out.
27. An informal term for a father.
28. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
30. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
32. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
33. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
34. Marked by or arising from malice.
37. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
40. Half the width of an em.
41. Antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. A choice that is made by voting.
47. Of or relating to the chest or thorax.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. A slender double-reed instrument.
54. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
56. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
58. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances).
59. Small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico.
62. The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something v 1.
63. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
64. A desert in southern Israel.
66. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
68. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
69. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
73. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
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