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1. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
4. Excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. Vulnerability to the elements.
17. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
18. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
20. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
21. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
23. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
26. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
27. Lower in esteem.
30. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
38. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
43. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
44. At or constituting a border or edge.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
47. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
51. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
53. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
56. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
57. All of the inhabitants of the earth.
60. Having winglike extensions.
61. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
63. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
67. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
70. Dyed with henna.
73. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
76. A master's degree in business.
77. A transuranic element.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. A decree that prohibits something.
81. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
82. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A large number or amount.
2. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
3. Type genus of the Bramidae.
4. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
5. The second largest state.
6. Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh.
7. Capital and largest city of Italy.
8. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
9. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. Relieve from military service.
12. A fit of shivering.
13. Offering fun and gaiety.
14. In bed.
19. A tributary of the Ohio River.
22. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
28. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. The capital of Lesotho.
33. 10 grams.
35. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
36. (New Testament) Supposed brother of St James.
37. Complacently or inanely foolish.
39. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
40. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
41. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. Singing jazz.
50. A city in Indonesia.
52. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
54. Not reflecting light.
55. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.
58. The practice of living without clothes for reasons of health.
59. Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic.
62. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
64. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
69. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
71. English essayist (1775-1834).
72. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
74. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
75. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
79. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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