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1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
4. The academic world.
12. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bavaria or its people.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
20. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.
21. A young woman making her debut into society.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
27. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
35. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
38. The floating wreckage of a ship.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
47. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
48. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
49. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
50. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
52. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
53. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
54. The basic unit of money in Iran.
56. The content of cognition.
59. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
60. Lean end of the neck.
62. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
65. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
68. Make sour or more sour.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. Owing gratitude or recognition to another for help or favors etc.
76. The cry made by sheep.
77. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
78. Pertaining to or located on or near the seacoast.
79. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
80. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
6. The eleventh month of the civil year.
7. Fallow deer.
8. Become ground down or deteriorate.
9. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
10. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
11. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
13. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
14. Dark somewhat brownish black n 1.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
26. Muslim name for God.
30. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
31. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
33. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
36. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
37. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.
39. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
40. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
42. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
43. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
44. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
46. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
51. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
55. Set down according to a plan.
57. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
58. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
61. (of something seen or heard) Clearly defined.
63. Sour or bitter in taste.
64. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. The handle of a weapon or tool.
69. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
70. Having made preparations.
71. God of the Underworld.
74. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
75. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
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