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1. The rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing).
4. The capital of Malta.
11. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
15. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
16. Engaged in as a pastime.
17. A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.
18. A mountain peak in the Saint Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high).
20. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
21. God of love and erotic desire.
22. A shape that spreads outward.
23. The last few hours before death.
25. Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium.
28. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
29. The basic unit of money in Spain.
30. Give life-like qualities to.
34. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
36. A flexible container with a single opening.
37. A state in midwestern United States.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.
41. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
42. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
45. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Being one more than one hundred.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. The square of a body of any size of type.
53. A collection of things wrapped or boxed together.
55. A milkshake with egg in it.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967).
61. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
64. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
67. River in eastern Asia.
70. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
74. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
77. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
78. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
79. Oldest known reptiles.
81. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
82. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
83. A great raja.
84. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. German anatomist (1733-1794).
2. A member of the working class (not necessarily employed).
3. A medium for oil-paints.
4. Painted beauty and red admiral.
5. Before noon.
6. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
7. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
9. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
11. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
12. (of movement) At an angle.
13. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
14. (informal) A bunch.
19. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
24. Any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii).
26. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
27. A sudden short attack.
31. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
33. Examination of conscience (as done daily by Jesuits).
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
43. Used of a single unit or thing.
44. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
46. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
48. Jordan's port.
49. God of death.
54. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
56. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
57. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
59. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
62. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
63. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
65. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
68. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
71. English monk and scholar (672-735).
72. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
75. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
76. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
80. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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