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1. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
4. Extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head.
11. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. An acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash.
17. A city in northern India.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Not mated sexually.
20. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. An Anatolian language.
23. The second largest state.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
28. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
30. Producing two offspring at a time.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
37. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
43. A milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives.
46. Wish harm upon.
47. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
49. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
50. (informal) Of the highest quality.
51. An obsolete firearm with a long barrel.
55. Being six more than fifty.
59. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
60. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
61. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
64. United States film actress (born in 1949).
66. Discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization, in psychoanalysis.
68. A polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles.
72. A large quantity of written matter.
73. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
76. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
77. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
78. Having winglike extensions.
80. A notable achievement.
81. A sign of something about to happen.
82. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
5. (Roman Catholic) A diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status.
6. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
8. Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail.
9. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
10. An informal term for a father.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
13. A track or mark left by something that has passed.
14. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
22. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
24. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
26. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
32. Any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency.
33. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. An exile who flees for safety.
40. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
41. Emperor of Rome who introduced a degree of freedom after the repressive reign of Domitian.
42. Look forward to the probably occurrence of.
44. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. The cry made by sheep.
48. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
52. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
53. American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics twice (1908-1991).
54. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
56. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
57. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
58. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
62. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
63. At surface level.
65. A genus of Ploceidae.
67. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
69. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. A quantity of no importance.
74. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
79. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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