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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. Deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America.
11. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
15. Among the largest bony fish.
16. (India) The driver and keeper of an elephant.
17. Avatar of Vishnu.
18. At any time.
19. Offering little or no hope.
20. A drill for penetrating rock.
21. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
23. Tropical Asian starlings.
24. Fastened with stitches.
25. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
27. A large number or amount.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
35. An honorary degree in science.
41. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
42. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
44. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
47. Marked by extreme lack of restraint or control.
48. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
50. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
52. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
53. Having help.
54. Half the width of an em.
55. The work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm.
57. The father of your father or mother.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
62. A sign of something about to happen.
64. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
67. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
70. A river in Germany.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
78. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
79. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
81. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
82. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
83. (linguistics) Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.
84. The basic unit of money in Peru.
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1. Make amendments to.
2. Any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets.
3. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
5. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
6. Ragout of game in a rich sauce.
7. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
8. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
9. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. A bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel).
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
14. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
32. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
33. Provide with a new lining.
34. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
36. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
37. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
38. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
39. Closed with a lace.
40. Very dark black.
43. A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked.
45. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
46. Become taut or tauter.
49. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
51. Supply with battlements.
56. A state in north central United States.
58. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
59. Capital and largest city of Colombia.
63. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
65. In bed.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
69. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
71. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
72. Channel into a new direction.
73. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. Remaining after all deductions.
80. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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