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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
12. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
15. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
16. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. How long something has existed.
19. King of the Huns.
20. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
22. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
24. A proportion multiplied by 100.
26. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
27. Very attentive or observant.
28. The process of exposing to air (so as to purify).
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. 43rd President of the United States.
38. Colloquial British abbreviation.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
46. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
47. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
50. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
52. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
53. Complacently or inanely foolish.
54. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
55. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
58. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
59. Look at with amorous intentions.
61. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
63. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
65. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
68. Being seven more than seventy.
74. A West African language closely related to Fula.
75. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
78. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
79. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
82. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
83. Prong on a fork or pitchfork.
84. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
4. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
5. Economic independence as a national policy.
6. Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles.
7. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. With rapid movements.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. A resource.
12. An island of central Hawaii.
13. Formally making a person known to another or to the public.
14. A formal expression of praise.
21. Cause to be attached.
23. A friendly nation.
25. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. Exercising power or authority.
35. Obvious and dull.
36. Enthusiastic approval.
37. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
40. Rounded like an egg.
41. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
44. Be in accord.
45. Give over.
48. Weaken mentally or morally.
49. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
51. The month following March and preceding May.
56. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s.
57. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
60. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
62. Chromatic purity.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
69. Being two more than forty.
70. A city of central China.
71. Being nine more than ninety.
72. English monk and scholar (672-735).
73. A sudden short attack.
76. Liveliness and energy.
77. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
80. An informal term for a father.
81. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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