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1. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
4. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
12. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
17. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
18. The longest river of Asia.
19. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
21. The fatty flesh of eel.
22. Being nine more than ninety.
24. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
25. Characteristic of false pride.
26. The capital of Bahrain.
29. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
30. A state in southeastern United States.
32. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
36. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. Large brightly crested bird of Africa.
44. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
47. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
48. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
52. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
55. As the agent of or on someone's part.
58. Celebrated in fable or legend.
59. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
62. Of or pertaining to any Shinto sect other than Kokka Shinto.
64. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
65. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
70. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. The highest level or degree attainable.
77. Characteristic of a mob.
78. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
79. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
80. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
2. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
3. A domain in which something is dominant.
4. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as Prime Minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt (1913-1992).
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
6. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
10. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
11. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
12. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
20. A genus of Indriidae.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea.
31. Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy.
33. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
34. A victim of a mugging.
35. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
37. Crowd or pack to capacity.
38. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
43. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
45. An informal conversation.
51. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
56. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
57. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
60. The amount of money needed to purchase something.
61. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
63. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
66. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
68. Very dark black.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
72. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
75. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
76. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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