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1. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
4. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants).
12. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. Irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
19. (often followed by `to') Having a preference, disposition, or tendency.
20. Tag the base runner to get him out.
21. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
23. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
25. An internal representation of the world.
27. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
36. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
40. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
42. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
44. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
45. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
47. A master's degree in library science.
49. A quantity of no importance.
50. A tributary of the Missouri River.
53. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
55. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
56. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
58. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
59. Distant in either space or time.
61. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
63. A populous province in northeastern China.
68. Highly excited.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
76. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
77. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
78. An earring with a pendant ornament.
80. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
81. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
82. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. Anchovy pear tree.
4. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
5. Forbidden by law.
6. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
7. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
8. An elaborate song for solo voice.
9. A bag filled with sand.
10. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
11. Having leadership guidance.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
24. The sport of gliding on skates.
26. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
31. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
33. An informal term for a father.
34. Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
35. A large fleet.
37. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
38. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
39. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
41. An iconic mental representation.
43. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
51. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
52. A column of light (as from a beacon).
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
57. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
60. A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines).
62. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
64. A slender double-reed instrument.
65. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
66. English monk and scholar (672-735).
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. Offering fun and gaiety.
74. A negative.
75. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
79. An informal term for a father.
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