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1. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
4. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
12. An awkward stupid person.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Son and successor of Francois Duvalier as President of Haiti.
17. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
18. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
20. A mistake resulting from inattention.
21. Take in solid food.
22. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
23. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
25. The wood of an African obeche tree.
27. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
29. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
31. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
33. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
34. American dwarf fan palms.
38. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
40. A semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum.
44. Humble request for help.
45. (Welsh) A warrior god.
47. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
48. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
49. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. Covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
57. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
58. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
62. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
65. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
67. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
69. Not one of the first three in a race or competition.
72. A motley assortment of things.
76. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
77. A popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies.
80. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
81. Petty quarrel.
83. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
84. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
85. A port city in southwestern Iran.
86. An informal term for a father.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. The first light of day.
3. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.
4. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
5. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
6. The eleventh month of the civil year.
7. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
8. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
9. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
10. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
11. (Greek mythology) Greek god of darkness who dwelt in the underworld.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
14. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
19. A flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.
24. One thousandth of a second.
26. North American rat snakes.
28. The first month of the year.
30. A woman sahib.
32. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
35. Type genus of the Blattidae.
36. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
37. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
39. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
41. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
42. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
56. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
59. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
60. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
61. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. Drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects.
64. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
70. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
71. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
73. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. In bed.
75. Offering fun and gaiety.
78. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
79. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
82. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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