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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish.
17. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. A light touch or stroke.
19. A movement downward.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. Seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America.
23. Remaining after all deductions.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
29. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A state in New England.
37. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
43. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
44. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
46. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
47. A member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma.
50. Lacking in light.
51. Something intended to deceive.
52. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
56. Genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico.
59. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
60. Type genus of the Anatidae.
61. Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979).
63. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
64. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
67. Reason by deduction.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
73. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
76. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. An informal term for a father.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
83. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
84. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
85. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
5. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
6. Follower of Rastafarianism.
7. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
9. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
10. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
11. 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.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. Any competition.
24. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
27. Similar to the color of jade.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. Omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North and Central America.
34. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
35. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
36. Tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye).
38. Wood of a sumac.
39. The last (12th) month of the year.
40. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).
45. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
48. (of experimental animals) Raised under sterile conditions.
49. Bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. Learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it.
55. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
57. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
58. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
62. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
65. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
66. English monk and scholar (672-735).
68. Able to act at will.
70. Set down according to a plan.
71. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
72. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
74. The residue that remains when something is burned.
75. An accountant certified by the state.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
81. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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