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1. The seventh and last day of the week.
4. An instrument for measuring the distance between two points.
12. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
15. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
16. From 2 million to 13 million years ago.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
20. Mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
22. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
24. A city in north central Nigeria.
26. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
27. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
30. Having tucked or being tucked.
31. An insect or other arthropod between molts.
34. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. Being three more than fifty.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
45. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
50. A unit of pressure.
52. City in Sudan.
54. Speaking a Slavic language.
55. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. Tropical Asian starlings.
59. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
61. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
62. The Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
65. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
66. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
70. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
73. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
74. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
75. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska.
78. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
79. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
80. Small genus of chiefly American herbs.
82. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
83. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
84. Be about.
85. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
3. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
4. The unit of frequency.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
7. Having or resembling a lobe or lobes.
8. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. Half the width of an em.
11. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
12. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
13. A fit of shivering.
14. Fallow deer.
21. A quantity of no importance.
23. Tie again or anew.
25. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
32. Coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position.
33. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
36. Support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete.
37. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
38. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
41. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
42. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
46. Opinion or judgment.
47. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
48. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
49. Any fern of the genus Osmunda.
51. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
53. Doing arduous or unpleasant work.
56. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
60. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
63. Any plant of the genus Erica.
64. Any activity that is easy to do.
67. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
68. A province in north-central China.
69. Having winglike extensions.
71. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
72. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
76. In this sense `Gentile' denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew.
77. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
81. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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