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1. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
4. The atmosphere above a nation and deemed to be under its jurisdiction.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Someone who assaults others sexually.
17. Seed of a pea plant.
18. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
19. A thermionic tube having two electrodes.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
21. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
22. Something causes misery or death.
24. Cause to repeat a cycle.
27. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
29. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
30. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
33. A desert in southern Israel.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
39. Very dark black.
40. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
41. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
42. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
43. A public square with room for pedestrians.
45. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
51. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
52. Offering goods or services at less than standard price or rate.
54. Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93).
56. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
58. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
59. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
60. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
63. How long something has existed.
65. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
67. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
70. A source of danger.
73. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
74. Having the head uncovered.
76. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
78. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
80. A canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse).
82. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
83. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
84. Pacific newts.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Strike sharply.
3. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
4. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
7. Of or relating to the stars or constellations.
8. A unit of pressure.
9. Traveling on horseback.
10. Give over.
11. Upright in position or posture.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. A bowling pin of the type used in ninepins (or (in England) skittles).
25. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
26. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
28. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
31. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
32. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
34. Virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.
36. United States comedian.
37. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
38. Tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips.
44. The capital of Croatia.
47. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
48. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
50. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
53. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
55. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
57. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
61. A voluptuously beautiful young woman.
62. United States playwright (1906-1963).
64. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
66. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
68. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. God of love and erotic desire.
75. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
79. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
81. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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