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1. Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants.
5. (sports) Illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck.
12. A master's degree in fine arts.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
16. Of or relating to a creed.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. A native American tent.
20. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
21. Water frozen in the solid state.
22. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
24. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
26. A flowering shrub.
27. French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel Prizes.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. Black tropical American cuckoo.
31. An associate degree in nursing.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
34. Not in good physical or mental health.
37. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
40. A kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score.
44. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
47. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
48. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
49. City in central Iran.
51. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
54. Any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers.
55. A small foothold used in climbing.
56. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. Being one more than fifty.
60. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. Half the width of an em.
63. A kind of person.
65. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
71. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. Large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants.
79. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
80. Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit.
82. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
83. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
84. The father of your father or mother.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.
2. A drama set to music.
3. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
4. Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp.
5. (Greek mythology) Sea nymph who was a daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
6. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
7. A city in north central Morocco.
8. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
9. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
10. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
11. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
12. Type genus of the Majidae.
13. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
14. Of or relating to or involving an area.
19. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
28. (especially of promises or contracts) Having been violated or disregarded.
33. Of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages.
35. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
36. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504).
38. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
39. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
42. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
43. Intensely fashionable for a short time.
45. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
46. A rapid bustling commotion.
50. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
52. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
53. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.
58. A Mid-Atlantic state.
62. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
64. To some (great or small) extent.
66. An Eskimo hut.
67. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
68. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
69. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
70. A city of central China.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. God of love and erotic desire.
76. (Irish) The sea personified.
77. Goddess of fate.
81. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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