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1. Causing a dull and steady pain.
5. An oral antifungal drug (trade name Lamisil) used to treat cases of fungal nail disease.
12. A light touch or stroke.
15. A small amount of residue.
16. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. A Scottish word.
19. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
20. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
22. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
24. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
26. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
27. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
28. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
30. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
34. (anatomy) Of or relating to the fauces.
38. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
41. Someone who walks at a leisurely pace.
43. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
46. The basic unit of money in Iran.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. A language of Australian aborigines.
57. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
62. An employee of a railroad.
65. A large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout.
69. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
70. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
71. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
74. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
75. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known a Iraq.
80. A notable achievement.
81. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
82. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
2. Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy.
3. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
4. (Norse mythology) A huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and heaven and hell together.
5. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
8. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
9. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
10. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
11. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
21. A fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra.
23. Having or as if having limbs (especially limbs of a specified kind).
25. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
29. The habitation of wild animals.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. That is making a soft cry.
36. A large fleet.
37. 1 species.
39. To an ample degree or in an ample manner.
40. Used in combination to denote the middle.
42. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
44. Type genus of the Soleidae.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. Combining form.
51. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
53. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
54. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
55. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
56. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
60. Typical geese.
61. A genus of Ploceidae.
63. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
64. A master's degree in religion.
66. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
68. A quantity of no importance.
72. Being six more than fifty.
73. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
76. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
78. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
79. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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