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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. The last few hours before death.
12. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
15. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
16. A consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1.
17. The sign language used in the United States.
18. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
19. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
21. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
27. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
29. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
30. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
34. United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882).
38. A container.
40. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
41. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. An enclosed space.
48. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
51. An advanced law degree.
52. Relating to or associated with Arabia or its people.
54. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
55. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
56. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
57. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
59. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
61. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
63. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
64. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
65. Any object that is left unused or still extant.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. A sharp change in direction.
80. A person who uses flattery.
81. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
82. Black tropical American cuckoo.
83. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
84. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people.
2. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
3. Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar.
4. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
5. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
6. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
7. The distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).
8. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
9. Found along western Atlantic coast.
10. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. A Mid-Atlantic state.
12. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
13. Pale gray.
14. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
20. Praise, glorify, or honor.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
31. Of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people.
32. A Greek island west of Greece.
33. A former British gold coin worth 21 chillings.
35. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
36. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
37. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
39. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. Divulge information or secrets.
45. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
53. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
58. A nation in northern North America.
60. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
62. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
66. Very dark black.
67. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
68. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
69. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
70. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
71. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
72. A town in north central Oklahoma.
73. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
76. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
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