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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. (Japanese) Thin beef strips (or chicken or pork) cooked briefly at the table with onions and greens and soy sauce.
12. (informal) Roused to anger.
15. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
16. Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
20. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
21. State in northeastern India.
23. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
24. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
26. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
27. An itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins.
31. Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc..
34. The basic unit of money in Nicaragua.
38. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
39. An audiotape recording of sound.
41. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
42. Lacking in light.
45. Being three more than fifty.
46. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
47. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
49. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
51. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
55. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
56. A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else.
58. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses.
64. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
65. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
68. A white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots.
70. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
72. Having a woven pattern.
75. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
76. A city in northwestern Mexico.
79. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
80. An honorary law degree.
81. Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
82. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
83. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
84. Civet of Madagascar.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
2. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
5. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
6. The third month of the civil year.
7. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
8. A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog).
9. Inquire about.
10. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
11. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
12. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
19. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
22. A large number or amount.
25. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
28. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
29. Buffalo fishes.
30. A Russian vehicle (carriage or sled) pulled by three horses abreast.
32. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
33. Wood of a sumac.
35. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
36. Formed or gathered into a ball.
37. A large fleet.
40. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
43. A magic power or magic spell.
44. Of a leaf shape.
48. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
50. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
52. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
57. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
59. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
62. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
63. Dwell (archaic).
66. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
67. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
69. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
71. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. God of love and erotic desire.
77. A local computer network for communication between computers.
78. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.
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