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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Herbs or shrubs or small trees.
12. The player judged to be the most important to the sport.
15. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
16. Enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. An affirmative.
19. Relating to or used in chemistry.
20. Of or relating the the Vedas or to the ancient Sanskrit in which they were written.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
26. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
27. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
29. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
31. A resource.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
39. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
43. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
46. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
47. Be obedient to.
48. Like a baby especially in dependence.
49. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. A human limb.
52. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
53. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
55. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. A Hindu prince or king in India.
62. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
64. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
66. Squash bugs.
70. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
74. A small cake leavened with yeast.
78. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
79. With one leg on each side.
81. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
82. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
83. Deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers.
84. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
5. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
6. An implement for practical use (especially in a household).
7. Flat and uninspiring.
8. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
9. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
10. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
11. A state in the western United States.
12. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
13. Characteristic of false pride.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. Separate by avulsion.
25. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
30. A large fleet.
32. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
33. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
34. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
35. A writer who composes rhymes.
38. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
40. Informal terms for a mother.
41. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
42. Cause to be embarrassed.
44. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
45. God of justice.
50. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
54. A city and port in northern Jutland.
56. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
58. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. Either extremity of something that has length.
63. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
65. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
67. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
68. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
69. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
71. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
72. Being one more than seven.
73. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
75. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
76. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
77. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
80. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
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