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1. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
5. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
12. Providing enjoyment.
15. God of fire.
16. Someone who escapes.
17. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
18. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
19. Something hard to endure.
20. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
22. The state of being behind in payments.
25. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
26. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
29. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. The residue that remains when something is burned.
33. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
37. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
45. A light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet.
48. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
51. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
52. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
53. A substance derived from amygdalin.
54. United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941).
56. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
58. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
59. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
60. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
61. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
63. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
68. United States writer (1871-1900).
72. American gurnard.
74. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
76. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
77. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
78. Someone who rows a boat.
80. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
81. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
82. English ballet dancer (born in 1910).
83. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
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1. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
2. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
3. A vicious angry growl.
4. (of pitches) Made with the arm moving parallel to the ground.
5. French philosopher and critic.
6. Goddess of fertility.
7. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. The month following March and preceding May.
10. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
13. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
14. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
21. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
23. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
32. Drained of energy or effectiveness.
34. annoy continually or chronically.
35. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
36. A woman of refinement.
38. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
39. Of or like a feeble old woman.
40. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
42. Flat tableland with steep edges.
43. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
46. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. Not only so, but.
50. Woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia.
55. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
57. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. A large quantity of written matter.
65. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
66. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
67. Speaking a Slavic language.
69. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
70. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
71. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
73. The cry made by sheep.
75. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
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