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1. Of or being the lowest female voice.
5. The Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
11. Rounded like an egg.
15. A person who evokes boredom.
16. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
17. A desert in central Asia.
18. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
19. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
21. A fellow female member of a youth gang.
23. Make use of.
24. Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit.
25. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
27. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail.
28. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
29. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
30. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
31. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
33. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
41. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
46. A person forced to flee from home or country.
48. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
51. A festival featuring African-American culture.
53. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
55. A state in midwestern United States.
56. A Mid-Atlantic state.
57. Edit and correct (written or printed material).
60. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
61. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
64. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
68. Wearing footgear.
70. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. A liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions.
76. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
77. Sew (two edges) with close stitches that pass over them both.
79. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
80. Give over.
81. Hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
2. Genus of African timber trees.
3. Made neat and tidy by trimming.
4. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
5. French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of romanticism (1866-1925).
6. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
7. Italian architect (1508-1580).
8. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
9. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
10. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
12. Dedicated in fulfillment of a vow.
13. Cruel or inhumane treatment.
14. The smallest detectable sensation.
20. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935).
34. A quantity of no importance.
36. Lacking natural ease.
37. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
38. An informal term for a father.
40. An unofficial association of people or groups.
42. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
49. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
52. Indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration.
54. One of two official languages of Norway.
58. A wrongful dispossession.
59. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
65. American novelist (1909-1955).
66. Informal terms for money.
67. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
69. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
71. God of love and erotic desire.
74. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
75. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
78. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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