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1. Any high mountain.
4. Medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark.
12. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
15. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
16. A family of birds of the suborder Oscines.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
20. Thin and fit.
21. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
22. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
23. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
25. Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918).
27. Provide with a terrace, as of a house.
29. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
31. An associate degree in nursing.
32. United States writer (born in 1933).
36. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
45. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
46. A short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play.
48. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
51. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
55. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
60. (informal) Of the highest quality.
62. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. A town in central Belgium.
71. The products of human creativity.
72. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
74. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
76. Produced by a manufacturing process.
77. Of or relating to the spleen.
79. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
80. A primeval personification of air and breath.
81. A seat for the rider of a horse.
82. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
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1. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
2. City in eastern Belgium.
3. The person or thing chosen or selected.
4. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
5. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
6. A state in New England.
7. Typical geese.
8. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. A shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits.
11. A longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it.
12. On the positive side or higher end of a scale.
13. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
14. The act of scanning.
19. A capacious bag or basket.
24. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
26. Caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted.
28. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
30. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
33. A form of Japanese poetry.
34. A strong emotion.
35. Tastelessly showy.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. The basic unit of money in Romania.
42. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
44. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
47. A Russian river.
49. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
50. On or toward the lee.
53. Regional and archaic.
56. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
58. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
61. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
63. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
64. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
65. A support or foundation.
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
68. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
70. Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887).
73. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
75. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
78. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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