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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Island in West Indies.
12. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. (law) Not of legal age.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
19. A deep bow.
20. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
21. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
23. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position.
29. Found along western Atlantic coast.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
38. The act of accelerating.
41. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper.
46. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
47. Being in competition.
50. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
52. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
53. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
54. The sixth month of the civil year.
56. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
57. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
60. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
62. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
65. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
67. An extreme state of adversity.
70. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
73. Pocket mice.
75. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. (prefix) Half or partial.
79. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
81. A light touch or stroke.
82. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
83. A flask for carrying water.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
4. French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models.
5. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
6. Not in action or at work.
7. Put (things or places) in order.
8. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
9. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. An accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing.
12. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
13. Not easy.
14. An informal term for a father.
22. A French abbot.
27. Large heavy rope for nautical use.
28. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
30. Light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars.
31. Steal goods.
32. The capital of Western Samoa.
35. Type genus of the Percidae.
36. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
37. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
39. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
40. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
48. Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira.
49. (of a ship or plane) Sideways drift.
51. The honeycreepers.
55. (informal) Exceptionally good.
58. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
59. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
61. A benign tumor composed of muscle tissue.
63. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
64. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
66. A coffin along with its stand.
68. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
69. The state of owing money.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
74. An enclosed space.
76. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
80. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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