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1. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
4. A consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1.
12. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
15. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
16. Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy.
17. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. No longer frozen solid.
20. An obsolete name for nitrogen.
21. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
22. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
23. Affect with wonder.
25. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
32. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
36. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
39. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
40. Not easy.
43. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
50. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
51. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
53. English monk and scholar (672-735).
54. An informal debt instrument.
55. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
56. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
58. Join again.
60. A large and stately mansion.
62. A thrusting blow with a knife.
65. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
66. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
67. Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded.
74. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
75. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
80. Capital and largest city of Yugoslavia.
82. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
83. Made warm or hot.
84. A great raja.
85. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. A book of the New Testament.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
4. How long something has existed.
5. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
6. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
7. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
8. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
9. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
10. Vietnamese New Year.
11. A Christian recluse.
12. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
13. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
14. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
19. The West AFrican language of the Wolof people in Senegal.
24. God of death.
26. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
33. A rich black loam of India.
34. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
35. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
38. Advance evidence for.
41. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
42. The use of dye to change the color of something permanently.
44. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
46. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
48. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
49. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
52. Mouselike jumping rodent.
57. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
59. The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah.
61. South American cavy.
63. Learns from a tutor.
64. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
68. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
69. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
70. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
71. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. Very dark black.
73. An informal term for a father.
76. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
77. The cry made by sheep.
81. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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