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1. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
5. A salt or ester of acetic acid.
12. A castrated tomcat.
15. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
16. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
19. Any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits.
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. Lying in a relaxed manner.
25. Lower in esteem.
27. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
37. Report or maintain.
42. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
43. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
44. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
46. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
51. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
52. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
55. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
58. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
60. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
63. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
64. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
65. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
67. Singing jazz.
69. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
71. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
75. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
79. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
83. A master's degree in fine arts.
84. Any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having 3-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring.
85. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Of or relating to near the ear.
2. God of love and erotic desire.
3. Jordan's port.
4. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
5. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
6. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
7. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
8. The bill in a restaurant.
9. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
10. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
11. A young eagle.
12. A desert in central Asia.
13. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
26. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
29. Fly a plane.
32. A flexible container with a single opening.
34. An archaic or literary name for China.
35. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
36. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances).
38. Either extremity of something that has length.
39. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
49. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
53. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
54. A person forced to flee from home or country.
56. A rapid bustling commotion.
57. A province in north-central China.
59. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
61. A light medieval helmet with a slit for vision.
62. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
66. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
68. Young of domestic cattle.
70. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
72. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
73. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
74. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
76. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
77. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
81. Being nine more than ninety.
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