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1. A genus of Strigidae.
5. French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932).
12. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
15. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
16. Situated away from the axis of any body or part.
17. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
18. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
19. Provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia.
20. Seed of a pea plant.
21. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
24. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
26. Become one.
28. A woman gossip.
30. Conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value.
35. A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics.
41. Causing alarm or fear.
44. Fiddler crabs.
45. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. A person of exceptional importance and reputation.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A port city in southwestern Iran.
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
51. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
53. In a weak and unconvincing manner.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
57. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
60. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
63. Indigo bush.
66. Without a face or identity.
69. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
73. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
74. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
75. Speaking a Slavic language.
78. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
79. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
83. Water frozen in the solid state.
84. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
85. (ophthalmology) Impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea.
86. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
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1. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
2. A cooperative unit.
3. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
4. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
5. A great rani.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Painful from having the skin abraded.
8. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
9. (informal) Very good.
10. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
11. Of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents.
12. United States film maker (1897-1991).
13. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
14. The act of scanning.
22. Wish harm upon.
25. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
27. The mother of your father or mother.
29. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
31. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
32. Make less active or intense.
33. Draw in by breathing.
34. A fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role.
38. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
40. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
42. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
43. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
49. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
52. By bad luck.
56. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
58. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
59. Unknown god.
61. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
62. A large number or amount.
64. Being seven more than sixty.
65. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
70. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
71. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
72. In bed.
76. A human limb.
77. A human limb.
81. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
82. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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