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1. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).
12. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity.
17. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
18. German composer (1833-1897).
19. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
20. The sixth day of the week.
21. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
22. Any thick messy substance.
23. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
26. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. An expression of greeting.
37. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
40. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
43. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
44. The capital and largest city of Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria.
48. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
49. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
51. A disorder of the glands of the body.
53. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
54. Take in solid food.
55. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
56. An advantageous purchase.
59. Being one more than fifty.
60. A person forced to flee from home or country.
62. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
66. The highest level or degree attainable.
71. Having a woven pattern.
74. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
76. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
78. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
79. Being one more than two.
80. City in central Iran.
82. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
83. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
84. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. 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.
4. Anticonvulsant drug (trade name Gemonil) used in the treatment of epilepsy.
5. In addition.
6. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
7. A socially awkward or tactless act.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. Disparaging terms for the common people.
10. The content of cognition.
11. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547).
12. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
13. Found along western Atlantic coast.
14. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
24. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
27. A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines).
29. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
31. Small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot.
33. An indication of approved or superior status.
35. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
36. Person who does no work.
38. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
39. A Loloish language.
41. The sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe v 1.
42. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
45. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. American Revolutionary patriot.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. Large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds.
52. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
57. Chief port of Yemen.
58. Of or like a cecum.
61. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. An island of central Hawaii.
65. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
67. The protruding part of the lower jaw.
68. Type genus of the Majidae.
69. A Loloish language.
70. An informal term for a father.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. God of love and erotic desire.
75. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
77. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
81. An informal term for a father.
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