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1. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
4. Biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions.
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Consider as ideal.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
19. Small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot.
20. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
22. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
24. (Greek mythology) The father of Odysseus.
26. God of love and erotic desire.
27. The bill in a restaurant.
29. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
30. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
38. (informal) A crushing remark.
42. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
44. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
45. Not only so, but.
47. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. With no effort to conceal.
51. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. Imprudently incurring risk.
56. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
57. A saucepan used for stewing.
58. Depressing in character or appearance.
60. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
64. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
66. (South Africa) A small hill rising up from the African veld.
74. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
75. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
78. Greek mythology.
80. British informal term.
81. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
83. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
84. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
85. A great raja.
86. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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1. The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. A woman of refinement.
4. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
5. The sixth month of the civil year.
6. The act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court).
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. The basic unit of money in Iran.
10. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
11. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
12. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
13. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
14. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
21. Of or relating to or involving an area.
23. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. Divulge information or secrets.
33. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
35. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
36. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
37. Remove the bones from (an animal).
39. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
40. An edict of the Russian tsar.
41. Type genus of the Hylidae.
43. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
46. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
50. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
52. Not close together in time.
53. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
55. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
59. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
61. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
65. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
67. Toward the mouth or oral region.
68. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
70. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
71. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
72. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
73. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. The month following March and preceding May.
79. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
82. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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