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1. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
5. The process of becoming sour.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
16. Put into a proper or systematic order.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. American inventor.
19. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
20. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
22. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
25. Of or relating to or involving an area.
26. Remove from memory or existence.
27. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
29. European shad.
31. The basic unit of money in Iran.
35. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
37. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
38. The largest of the Balearic Islands.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
46. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
48. Small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches.
51. A kind of literary or artistic work.
52. An innocuous or inert medication.
54. The residue that remains when something is burned.
56. The fatty flesh of eel.
57. The basic unit of money in Ecuador.
58. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
60. The day on which you receive pay for your work.
62. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
65. Having winglike extensions.
67. Occurring during the middle of the week.
69. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
73. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
74. To a severe or serious degree.
77. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
78. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
79. A loss of will power.
81. The twelfth month of the civil year.
82. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
83. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
84. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
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1. In the Roman calendar.
2. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
3. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
4. A naturally occurring estrogenic hormone.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
7. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
8. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
9. Serving during an intermediate interval of time.
10. A member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr peninsula in Siberia.
11. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
23. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
24. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
28. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
30. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
32. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
33. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
34. In a weak and unconvincing manner.
36. Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786).
39. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
42. A light touch or stroke.
44. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
47. Make effective from an earlier date.
49. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
55. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. In a vehement outcry.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Jordan's port.
66. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
68. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
70. Offering fun and gaiety.
71. An Asian river between China and Russia.
72. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
75. Two items of the same kind.
76. A three-year law degree.
80. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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