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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion.
12. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. A salt or ester of arsenic acid.
17. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
19. Sturdy annual of Peru.
20. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
21. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
25. In bed.
27. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
28. Young sheep.
31. A thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle.
34. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
38. In the area or vicinity.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
44. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
45. Similar to the color of an egg yolk.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. A master's degree in education.
48. Fiddler crabs.
49. By chance.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
53. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
55. Make effective from an earlier date.
58. A person with albinism.
60. Cause to become awake or conscious.
61. Highly excited.
64. Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie.
66. French artist who immigrated to the United States.
70. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
74. British informal term.
75. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
78. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
79. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
80. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
82. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
83. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
84. A great raja.
85. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
5. Come into existence.
6. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
7. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
8. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
9. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
10. A city in the central Netherlands.
11. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
13. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
14. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
22. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
24. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
26. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
29. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
30. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
32. Not only so, but.
33. Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork.
35. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
36. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
37. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.
39. Cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits.
40. A person of unquestioning obedience.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
56. A festival featuring African-American culture.
57. Indigo bush.
59. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
62. Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit.
63. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
65. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
67. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
68. Tropical Asian starlings.
69. A major god.
71. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
72. Have supper.
73. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
76. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
77. The month following March and preceding May.
81. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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