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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
12. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Painstakingly careful and accurate.
17. Take in solid food.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. A sudden short attack.
20. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
25. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
26. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
28. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
29. Be a signal for or a symptom of.
32. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
36. The sixth month of the civil year.
37. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
40. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
42. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
43. 1/10 gram.
45. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
46. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
47. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
49. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856).
50. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
52. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
53. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
55. Characterized by friendship and good will.
57. A Mid-Atlantic state.
58. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
60. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
62. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
65. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
67. Something hard to endure.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
76. Goddess of war.
78. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
79. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
80. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
82. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
83. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
84. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
85. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A unit of pressure.
5. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
6. Harshly ironic or sinister.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. Mild cream-colored Dutch cheese shaped in balls.
9. The practice of living without clothes for reasons of health.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. Largest city in Illinois.
12. Steal goods.
13. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
21. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
23. Little known Kamarupan languages.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
30. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
31. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
33. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
34. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
35. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
38. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
39. A Nilotic language.
41. Jordan's port.
44. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614).
48. Someone who engages in drinking bouts.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
54. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
56. The largest of the Balearic Islands.
59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
63. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
64. A public promotion of some product or service.
66. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961).
68. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
69. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
71. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
72. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
73. A city in northern India.
75. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
81. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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