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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. Type genus of the Dipsacaceae.
12. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
16. Granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains.
17. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
18. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
19. Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.
20. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. 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.
26. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
27. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
28. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
41. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
43. A pass between mountain peaks.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
46. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
49. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
50. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
52. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
53. Flesh of large European flatfish.
55. Lyrebirds and scrubbirds.
58. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
61. A public promotion of some product or service.
62. Very light colored.
65. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
70. Periodic maintenance on a car or machine.
73. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
76. A motley assortment of things.
77. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
79. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
80. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
81. The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed.
84. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
85. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
86. Some held in custody.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
4. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
5. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
6. A explosive device used to break down a gate or wall.
7. A man who courts a woman.
8. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
9. Owned up to.
10. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
11. The month following August and preceding October.
12. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
21. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
32. Again but in a new or different way.
33. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
35. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
36. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
38. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
39. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
40. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
42. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
47. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
48. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
51. Of surpassing excellence.
54. Not out.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
59. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
60. A long-playing phonograph record.
63. A genus of Indriidae.
64. A garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle).
66. The brother of your father or mother.
67. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
71. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
72. A fit of shivering.
74. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
75. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
78. Being one more than two.
82. A heavy precious metallic element.
83. An associate degree in nursing.
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