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1. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
4. A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand.
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
17. The basic unit of money on Malta.
18. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
19. A small band of jazz musicians.
20. A small nail.
21. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
22. The last (12th) month of the year.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. Unknown god.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. A state in midwestern United States.
30. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
32. 16 ounces.
34. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
42. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. (used with count nouns) Two considered together.
45. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
46. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
49. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
50. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
52. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705).
55. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
56. The quality of being mentally slow and limited.
61. A card game for 2 players.
62. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
65. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
67. A river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea.
69. 1 species.
73. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
74. A lake in northwestern Russia.
77. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
78. Late time of life.
79. A genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae.
81. A notable achievement.
82. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
83. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants.
84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Young of domestic cattle.
2. Advanced in years.
3. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
4. Any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway.
5. Being nine more than ninety.
6. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
7. A slender double-reed instrument.
8. To bring or combine together or with something else.
9. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
10. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
11. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
12. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. An informal term for a father.
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
33. A state of northeastern India.
35. English monk and scholar (672-735).
36. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
37. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
38. Provide evidence for.
39. (ballet) Quick gliding steps with one foot always leading.
41. Give over.
44. Being on the outside or further from a center.
47. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
48. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
51. Wearing footgear.
54. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
57. Subdivision not used in some classifications.
58. A professional cook.
59. King of the Huns.
60. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
63. An ordered reference standard.
64. Censure severely or angrily.
66. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
68. An artificial source of visible illumination.
70. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
71. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
72. A quantity of no importance.
75. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
76. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
80. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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