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1. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
4. Bring something new to an environment.
12. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
15. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
16. A lover blind with admiration and devotion.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
22. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
24. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
25. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
26. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
28. A genus of Scolopacidae.
30. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
31. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
32. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
36. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
39. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
42. The act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something).
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
47. Water soaked soil.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
53. Serving as or forming a base.
55. Of or relating to or containing barium.
57. The amount a salary is increased.
58. Regional and archaic.
60. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
62. The square of a body of any size of type.
63. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
64. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
66. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
71. An accountant certified by the state.
74. A bed supporting a road.
76. Lacking motor coordination.
78. A light touch or stroke.
79. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
82. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
83. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
84. A restless seeker after amusement or social companionship.
85. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
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1. Extending or lying across.
2. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
3. A person of unquestioning obedience.
4. Being one more than one.
5. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
7. A song that was formerly popular.
8. Virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.
9. Any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers.
10. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
13. Wearing or provided with clothing.
14. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
19. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
21. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
23. The airforce of Great Britain.
27. Considerate and solicitous care.
29. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
33. (voodooism) A spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body.
34. Separate by avulsion.
35. From sins, as in religious dogma.
37. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
38. Lower in esteem.
40. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
41. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
45. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
46. A soft silvery metallic element.
49. In bed.
51. Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. A motley assortment of things.
61. Being nine more than ninety.
65. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
67. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
68. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
70. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
72. A coniferous tree.
73. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
80. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
81. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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