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1. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
4. Revelry in drinking.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Seed of a pea plant.
16. Rule against.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. A port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river.
20. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
21. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
23. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
24. Any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines.
26. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
28. A genus of Mustelidae.
29. A state in the eastern United States.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
39. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
44. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. A state in northwestern North America.
46. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the surface of the sun.
47. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
48. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
51. A local computer network for communication between computers.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. An associate degree in nursing.
54. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
57. An extreme state of adversity.
60. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
63. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
64. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
65. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
67. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
72. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
75. Small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire.
76. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
79. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
80. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
81. Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean.
83. A light touch or stroke.
84. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
85. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
3. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
4. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
5. A genus of Indriidae.
6. The act of rewriting something.
7. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
8. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
9. A ray of sunlight.
10. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
11. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
12. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
22. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
25. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
33. Made of fir or pine.
36. Any plant of the genus Inula.
37. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. The bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids.
40. To fix or set securely or deeply.
41. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
42. Jordan's port.
43. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
49. Act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief.
50. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
55. Alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales.
56. (informal) Exceptionally good.
58. Refuse to acknowledge.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
61. Make unhappy.
66. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
68. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
69. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
70. Someone who cooks food.
71. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
77. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
78. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
82. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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