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1. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
4. An obsolete kind of container used for distillation.
11. Indicating the most important performer or role.
15. (Sumerian) Sun god.
16. Distance measured in miles.
17. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
18. A circular segment of a curve.
20. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
21. Disparaging terms for small people.
22. English essayist (1775-1834).
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. Of or relating to the aorta.
26. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
28. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
30. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
37. Continuing or remaining in a place or state.
42. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
43. Given or having a specified name.
44. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
47. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
48. A city in northeastern Ohio.
50. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
51. Highly excited.
53. A state in New England.
54. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.
55. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
57. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
60. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
61. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
62. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
64. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
68. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
71. (linguistics) Relating to the dative case.
73. Used of locations.
77. The 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
78. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
79. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
81. Step on it.
82. A doctor's degree in education.
83. Of or relating to the cochlea of the ear.
84. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
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1. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
2. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
3. An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue.
4. Before noon.
5. The basic unit of money on Malta.
6. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
7. The number of opening per inch of a screen.
8. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
9. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
10. Of or like a cecum.
11. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
12. Pulled or drawn tight.
13. God of fire.
14. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
19. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
25. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. In the process of being born or beginning.
32. A blind god.
34. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
35. A vicious angry growl.
36. A large and imposing house.
38. A city in southeastern South Korea.
39. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
40. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
46. Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
56. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
63. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
65. Gracefully slender.
66. A means of serving.
67. The post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs.
69. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
70. A condition requiring relief.
72. The sixth month of the civil year.
74. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
75. The residue that remains when something is burned.
76. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
80. Being nine more than ninety.
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