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1. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
4. Art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together).
12. The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope.
15. The chance to speak.
16. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
20. A synthetic silklike fabric.
21. The basic unit of money in Albania.
22. Type genus of the Ranidae.
23. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
24. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
26. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
28. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.
31. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
34. Elegant and sumptuous.
35. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
39. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
40. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup.
42. The sound made by a cow or bull.
43. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
44. A former French coin of low denomination.
47. Patron saint of shoemakers.
49. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
51. The unit of frequency.
52. Extreme mental distress.
53. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
56. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
57. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
59. A person forced to flee from home or country.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
64. United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn.
67. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
70. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
71. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter.
74. Full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds.
75. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
78. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
79. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
80. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
83. A periodic paperback publication.
84. A doctor's degree in education.
85. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
2. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
3. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
4. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
5. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
6. Being nine more than forty.
7. A wrapped container.
8. The tenth month of the civil year.
9. A branch of the Tai languages.
10. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
11. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
12. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
19. A building where prostitutes are available.
25. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
30. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
32. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
33. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
36. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
37. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
38. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
41. Metal supports for logs in a fireplace.
45. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
46. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
48. Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
50. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
54. Power to control.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. Put a new facing on, as of a garment.
62. A trap for birds or small mammals.
63. Tested and proved useful or correct.
65. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
66. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
68. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
69. An unofficial association of people or groups.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
76. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
77. Used of a single unit or thing.
81. Half the width of an em.
82. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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