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1. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
4. Plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers.
12. Inquire about.
15. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
16. Cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. A terrier with wiry hair.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. By bad luck.
23. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
24. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
26. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
28. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
31. The eleventh month of the civil year.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
43. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
48. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
49. Being one more than three.
51. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
52. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
56. The Teutonic goddess of fertility.
59. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
60. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
62. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
65. An Anatolian language.
74. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
75. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
78. The cry made by sheep.
79. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
82. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
83. Any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having 3-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring.
84. Take in solid food.
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1. English essayist (1775-1834).
2. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
3. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
4. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
5. Sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).
6. German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome.
7. English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723).
8. Having had the head cut off.
9. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
10. Being two more than fifty.
11. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
25. A domain in which something is dominant.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
32. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
34. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
36. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
37. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
40. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
41. Someone who saves something from danger or violence.
44. World's longest river (4187 miles).
47. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
50. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
58. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
61. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
63. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
64. Of or relating to or containing barium.
66. An inhabitant of Lappland.
67. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
68. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
69. The universal time coordinated time on board the spacecraft.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. A slender double-reed instrument.
72. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
73. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961).
76. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
77. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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