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1. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
4. City in central Iran.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
20. Any substance (such as an antibody) or agent that can cause lysis.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
22. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. A French abbot.
31. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
33. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
37. Having many branches.
39. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
40. Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
46. Type genus of the Timaliidae.
49. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
51. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
52. Relating to the Elysian Fields.
53. The superior of a group of nuns.
55. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
56. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
58. The cry made by sheep.
59. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
62. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
64. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. Not in.
74. Jordan's port.
75. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
76. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
78. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
79. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
80. Emptying accomplished by draining.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
2. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
3. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
6. An informal term for a father.
7. Make a more or less disguised reference to.
8. A city in southwest Ohio.
9. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
11. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
23. An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft.
24. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
25. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
27. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. Take in a sail with a brail.
30. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
32. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
34. A plain plinth that supports a wall.
35. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
36. American Revolutionary patriot.
38. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. Earlier a god.
48. Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. A dyed fabric.
57. Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813).
60. A Finnish steam bath.
61. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
63. 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.
65. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
70. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. An honorary degree in science.
77. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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