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1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
12. How long something has existed.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.
17. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
18. The vein in the center of a leaf.
19. (usually plural) Valuables taken by violence (especially in war).
20. A yearning for something or to do something.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. The fifth of the seven canonical hours.
24. Boas and pythons.
26. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
28. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
29. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
31. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
33. A broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle.
36. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
38. 16 ounces.
40. Little known Kamarupan languages.
42. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
43. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
45. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
47. In the Roman calendar.
49. A small fragment.
51. (botany) Of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization.
52. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
53. Unknown god.
55. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
56. (informal) Of the highest quality.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. Conforming to truth.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A vigorous blow.
70. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
72. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
73. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
74. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
76. A fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
79. Fallow deer.
80. The month following March and preceding May.
81. Somewhat tall.
83. (Roman mythology) God of love.
84. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
85. A secondary school (usually private).
86. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
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1. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
2. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
3. A woman of refinement.
4. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
5. Raise in a relief.
6. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
7. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
8. A handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
10. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
11. The capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.
12. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.
13. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
14. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
23. A small drink of liquor.
25. A peninsula in southwestern Europe.
27. Enthusiastic approval.
30. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
32. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
34. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
35. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
37. Type genus of the Ranidae.
39. Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.
41. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
44. A quantity of no importance.
46. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
48. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
54. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
57. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
58. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
60. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. Large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber.
65. A cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.
67. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
68. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
69. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
78. Lacking self-confidence.
82. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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