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1. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
4. A great raja.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. (Irish) The sea personified.
16. Large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
20. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
22. (Chinese and Japanese) Treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body.
24. Regional and archaic.
25. Gone by.
26. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
30. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
32. An associate degree in nursing.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. God of the underworld.
43. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
45. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
50. A quantity of no importance.
53. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
54. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
55. A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes.
57. A doctor's degree in religion.
58. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
62. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
63. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
64. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
66. A public promotion of some product or service.
71. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
74. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
79. A decree that prohibits something.
80. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
81. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
83. Related by blood.
84. A doctor's degree in music.
85. English privateer involved in the slave trade.
86. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Type genus of the Gliridae.
2. Not only so, but.
3. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island.
4. United States religious and writer (1915-1968).
5. By bad luck.
6. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
7. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
8. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
10. A son who has the same first name as his father.
11. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
12. The sixth month of the civil year.
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
21. The capital of Morocco.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. An atom or molecule or radical or ion that forms a complex around a central atom.
34. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
37. Naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride.
38. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia.
40. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
41. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
46. A Hindu prince or king in India.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
56. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
59. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
60. Covered with scabs.
65. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
67. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
68. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. A branch of the Tai languages.
70. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
72. Most important element.
73. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
75. (Babylonian) The sky god.
76. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
77. An adult female hog v 1.
78. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
82. Informal terms for a mother.
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