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1. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
4. A sudden involuntary movement.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. The holy city of Shiite Muslims.
17. 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.
18. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
20. Blown apart with great violence.
21. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
24. Denuded of leaves.
25. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
26. British politician (1788-1850).
29. Chief port of Yemen.
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
36. 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.
41. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
44. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
47. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
48. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
50. Disposed or placed in a particular kind of order.
52. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
54. Throwing with a wide motion (as if with a sling).
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
58. The capital of Cameroon.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
61. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
69. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
73. The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves.
76. The cry made by sheep.
77. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. Top part of an apron.
81. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
82. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
83. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
3. Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food.
4. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
5. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
6. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
8. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
9. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
10. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
11. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
14. Filled with a great quantity.
19. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
22. Take in solid food.
23. A chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline.
27. With eagerness.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
34. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
35. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
37. South African term for `boss'.
38. A gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier.
39. An occurrence of thorough mixing.
40. Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts.
42. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
43. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
45. An elaborate song for solo voice.
46. Engross (oneself) fully.
49. God of justice.
51. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
53. Any member of the genus Stentor.
57. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
62. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
63. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
64. The eleventh month of the civil year.
65. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
66. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
67. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
68. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
70. A French abbot.
71. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
72. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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