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1. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
4. A cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef).
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
16. A tributary of the Missouri River.
17. The momentary present.
18. Someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections.
20. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
21. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
23. Upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds.
24. Lower in esteem.
27. Made of or resembling lace.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. Russian country house.
31. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
34. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
38. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Having branches.
43. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
46. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
48. A periodic paperback publication.
49. Being nine more than forty.
50. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
53. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
56. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
58. Small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire.
60. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
63. A building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire.
65. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
68. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
69. English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723).
71. A protective covering for a knife or sword.
74. A salt or ester of hydriodic acid.
76. A padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm.
78. The cry made by sheep.
79. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
80. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
82. An awkward stupid person.
83. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
84. A hormone secreted by the pancreas.
85. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
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1. A neutral middle vowel.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
3. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
4. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo.
5. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
6. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
9. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. Extremely pleasing.
12. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
13. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
14. Distant in either space or time.
19. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
22. The part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. A card game for 2 players.
30. The closing section of a musical composition.
32. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
33. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
35. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
36. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
39. Used of physical coldness.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
45. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
47. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
51. Pertaining to loss of hair or wool or feathers.
52. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
54. A tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing.
55. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
59. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950).
61. A public building for gambling and entertainment.
64. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
66. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
67. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
70. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
72. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
73. The handle of a weapon or tool.
75. The site of an archeological exploration.
77. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
81. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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