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1. A bachelor's degree in theology.
4. Become adolescent.
12. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
15. An affirmative.
16. (Greek mythology) The blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
20. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
21. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
26. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
27. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. An ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about.
34. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
38. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
42. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
43. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
44. Towards the side away from the wind.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
50. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
52. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
53. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
58. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
59. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
61. The nest of a squirrel.
65. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
67. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
69. The presence of a virus in the blood stream.
73. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
74. Filled with a great quantity.
77. Avatar of Vishnu.
78. A French abbot.
82. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
83. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
84. In place of, or as an alternative to.
85. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
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1. Type and only genus of the family Tytonidae.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. Denuded of leaves.
4. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
5. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
6. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
7. (biology) Rough to the touch.
8. Catch sight of.
9. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
10. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
13. A quantity of no importance.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
22. A port city in southwestern Iran.
28. Absent without permission.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. (of games) Engaged in.
33. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
35. Remove from the bar.
36. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
37. In an unnatural eery manner.
39. Not only so, but.
40. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
49. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
51. Mountain ebony, orchid tree.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Lack of sophistication or worldliness.
56. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
60. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
62. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
63. An associate degree in nursing.
64. A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms.
66. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
68. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
72. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
75. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
76. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
79. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
80. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
81. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
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