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1. One millionth of a gram.
4. An ache localized in the back.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
20. The local environment.
21. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
22. Mix up or confuse.
24. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
27. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
32. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
40. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
41. A master's degree in fine arts.
43. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. Remove from office.
49. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
52. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
53. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
54. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
55. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
60. Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or gray eyes.
62. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
64. Work hastily or carelessly.
66. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
71. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
74. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
75. An implement used to erase something.
78. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
79. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
80. A unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar.
82. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
83. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
84. A garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown.
85. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Wearing or provided with clothing.
3. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
4. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Being five more than one hundred.
7. From the kapok tree.
8. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
9. A genus of birds of the family Alcedinidae.
10. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
11. A change for the better.
12. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
13. Singing jazz.
14. Flat and uninspiring.
19. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
23. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
25. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars.
29. Lower in esteem.
33. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
34. Of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey).
35. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
38. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
39. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
42. To run away.
44. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
45. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
48. A just detectable amount.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. A person who eats all kinds of foods.
56. Someone whose business is advertising.
59. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
61. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
63. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
65. Clean with one's bill, of birds.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
68. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
69. The capital and largest city of Norway.
70. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
72. A city in northern India.
73. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
76. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
77. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
81. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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