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1. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. Of or relating to whales and dolphins etc.
12. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
15. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. Youthful appearance in an old person.
17. A boy or man.
18. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
19. Tenants of an estate considered as a group.
20. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
25. A winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art).
27. Sharp piercing cry.
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
34. Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn.
37. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
39. A human female who does housework.
41. Common American weed or wildflower.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
51. Indistinct or hazy in outline.
53. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
56. Well matched.
58. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
59. Small lynx of North America.
62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
64. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
68. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
69. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
71. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
72. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
75. A genus of Ploceidae.
77. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
78. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
79. A native or inhabitant of Armenia.
81. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
82. Not of long duration.
83. Ancient Athenian philosopher.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Traveling by foot.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
4. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
5. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
6. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
7. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
8. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
9. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
10. The framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines).
11. A negative.
12. Anything that covers or conceals.
13. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
14. The content of cognition.
22. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
24. Show a response or a reaction to something.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. An expression of greeting.
29. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
32. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
33. The first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War.
35. Hang loosely or laxly.
36. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
38. A state in New England.
40. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
42. City in northwestern Jordan.
43. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
44. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
45. Make amends for.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
52. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
54. A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. An athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball).
60. Talk pompously.
61. In or to a place that is lower.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
65. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
70. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
73. An associate degree in applied science.
74. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
76. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
80. One million periods per second.
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