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1. (British slang) An absolute certainty.
5. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
12. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
15. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
16. An account describing incidents or events.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Be agitated.
19. Rich in significance or implication.
20. A flexible container with a single opening.
21. Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel.
23. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
24. Lower in esteem.
26. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
30. Being ten more than eighty.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
34. Wearing or provided with clothing.
38. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
40. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
43. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. (geology) Used of the earliest known rocks.
48. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
51. 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.
52. An accountant certified by the state.
53. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
57. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
60. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
62. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
64. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
68. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
72. An enclosed space.
73. Someone who admires a young woman.
76. An informal term for a father.
77. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
78. Biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions.
80. Towards the side away from the wind.
81. Not reflecting light.
82. Resembling air or having the form of air.
83. Either extremity of something that has length.
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1. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
2. Type and only genus of the family Esocidae.
3. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
4. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
5. A human limb.
6. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
7. Fiddler crabs.
8. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
9. Someone who puts to good use.
10. A local computer network for communication between computers.
11. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. By bad luck.
14. Especially one side of a leaf.
22. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A white trivalent metallic element.
29. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
31. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.
35. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
36. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
37. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
39. Bar temporarily.
41. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
42. An informal term for a father.
45. A bottle with a stopper.
47. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
49. Bubble shells.
50. In bed.
56. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
58. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
59. A decree that prohibits something.
61. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
63. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
65. Mix up or confuse.
66. Filled with a great quantity.
67. So adjusted as to be appropriate or brought into harmony.
69. The universal time coordinated time on board the spacecraft.
70. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
71. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
74. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
75. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
79. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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