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1. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. Not participating in a chemical reaction.
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Of or relating to or supporting Catholicism.
17. Take in solid food.
18. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
20. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
22. English essayist (1775-1834).
23. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
25. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
26. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
28. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
30. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
32. Growing old.
37. A city in northeastern China.
41. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
42. Distant in either space or time.
45. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
46. A master's degree in business.
48. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
49. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
51. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
52. A town in northern Minnesota.
55. A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments.
57. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
58. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
60. The sacred city of Lamaism.
61. Goddess of fate.
65. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
69. Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae.
73. A state of abnormal softening of tissue.
75. Unwisely talking too much.
76. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
77. Pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit.
80. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
81. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
82. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
83. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
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1. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
2. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
3. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
4. Being nine more than ninety.
5. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
8. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
9. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
10. A healthy capacity for vigorous activity.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. A notable achievement.
13. Fallow deer.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
19. The face or front of a building.
21. Up to the immediate present.
24. A decree that prohibits something.
27. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
29. A simple type of jet engine.
31. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
33. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
35. (Greek mythology) A sea god son of Pontus and Gaea.
36. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
38. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
39. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
40. One ten thousandth of a centner.
43. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. A bachelor's degree in religion.
50. A heavenly place (peaceful and beautiful) where those who are favored by the gods can go when they die.
53. Any plant of the genus Inula.
54. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
56. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
59. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
62. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
63. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
67. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
68. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
70. Very dark black.
71. A Spanish river.
72. Colored or impregnated with dye.
74. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
78. Half the width of an em.
79. Being one more than one.
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