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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. Directed or moving toward the rear.
12. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
15. God of fire.
16. Remove body hair.
17. The fatty flesh of eel.
18. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
19. Type genus of the Squatinidae.
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
23. The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair).
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. The ending of a series or sequence.
28. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
29. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
32. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
35. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
39. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
42. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
44. Any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers.
48. Widely separated especially in space.
49. Lacking leadership.
50. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
51. English monk and scholar (672-735).
52. A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia.
55. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
56. State categorically.
57. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
66. A prophet of the first century.
71. A genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Being of crucial importance.
76. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
77. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
78. Occurring at the beginning.
79. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
80. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
81. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
82. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. An associate degree in nursing.
4. Capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal.
5. Use again after processing.
6. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
7. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir.
8. English essayist (1775-1834).
9. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
10. (British informal) Stark naked.
11. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
12. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
13. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
14. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
20. A city in northwestern Iran.
21. A cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils.
24. An uproarious party.
27. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
30. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
31. A garment worn by women in ancient Greece.
33. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
34. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
36. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
37. Any system of principles or beliefs.
38. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
43. The boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul.
45. (botany) Especially of plant parts.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. Enduring strength and energy.
54. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
58. 16 ounces.
59. Rub elbows with.
61. (Levi's is a trademark) A popular brand of jeans.
63. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
67. Very dark black.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
70. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
74. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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