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1. Botfly larva.
4. Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918).
11. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. The phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation.
17. Set down according to a plan.
18. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
19. Free from mist.
21. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
26. Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities.
28. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
29. Of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring.
41. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
43. Raised above ground level.
45. Being eight more than ninety.
47. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
48. The twelfth month of the civil year.
49. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
50. Increase in extent or intensity.
52. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
56. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
57. Lacking self-confidence.
58. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
60. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
62. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
64. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
65. A mining town in southern Wales.
70. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
73. A light touch or stroke.
74. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
75. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
76. Gradually narrowed toward a point.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
81. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
82. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
3. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
4. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
5. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
6. Sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers v 1.
7. Type genus of the Sciaenidae.
8. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
9. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. Buildings for carrying on industrial labor.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
13. (British) A recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports.
14. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
20. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
22. Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
25. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
27. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
30. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
32. A detective who follows a trail.
33. A musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources.
37. English monk and scholar (672-735).
38. A long and hard-hit fly ball.
39. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
40. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
42. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
44. Included seven times in every 19 years.
46. Pour water on.
51. A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia.
53. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
54. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
55. A state in midwestern United States.
59. Filled with a great quantity.
61. Not divisible by two.
63. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
66. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
67. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
68. Type genus of the Ranidae.
69. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
71. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
72. Tag the base runner to get him out.
77. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
78. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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