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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Of or relating to the chest or thorax.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
16. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa.
17. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
18. How long something has existed.
19. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
20. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
22. Obvious and dull.
24. Taking place over public roads.
25. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
26. Wild ox.
28. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
30. A child's overgarment for cold weather.
33. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options.
37. A seaport on the Persian Gulf and capital of Kuwait.
38. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
40. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
41. A notice of someone's death.
42. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
45. Lacking in light.
46. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters.
47. A Russian river.
48. Type genus of the Polygalaceae.
52. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
53. A state in southeastern United States.
54. Lacking mirth.
55. Half the width of an em.
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
63. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
65. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
67. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
70. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
72. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. Little known Kamarupan languages.
76. A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide.
78. A light touch or stroke.
79. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
80. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
81. 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. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. A primeval personification of air and breath.
4. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
5. Adult female chicken.
6. A tax on various goods brought into a town.
7. Resistor for regulating current.
8. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
9. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.
10. Not out.
11. A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat.
12. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
13. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
21. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
23. A power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt).
27. Furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike.
29. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
31. A native or inhabitant of Nubia.
32. Owed as a debt.
34. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
35. Wearing protective mail.
36. A large fleet.
39. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
43. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
44. Athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training.
49. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
50. The mints.
51. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
56. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
57. Having the slant of a bevel.
58. In the shape of a coil.
60. Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate.
62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
66. A small wooded hollow.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
71. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
77. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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