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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.
11. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
15. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
16. An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies).
17. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
18. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
19. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
20. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
21. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
23. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
24. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
26. A city in northern India.
27. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
29. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
30. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. Before noon.
33. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
47. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
49. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
52. Of or relating to acetone.
54. Extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects.
55. (Middle Eastern) Small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds.
57. A radioactive transuranic element.
58. Of or like a cecum.
62. Bleeding into the interior chamber of the eye.
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
69. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599).
75. An unforeseen obstacle.
77. Type genus of the Certhiidae.
79. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
80. Especially one side of a leaf.
81. One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.
82. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
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1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
2. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
3. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
4. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
5. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
6. (British) A dealer in textiles (especially silks).
7. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. Lacking sensation.
10. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
11. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
12. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
13. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
14. Cheese containing a blue mold.
22. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
25. A flexible container with a single opening.
28. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
32. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
34. Having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap.
35. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
36. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
38. Any plant of the genus Erica.
39. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
44. Something causes misery or death.
45. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
48. Coffee trees.
50. A large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales.
51. Innumerable but many.
53. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
56. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
59. Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward.
60. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
61. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
63. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
64. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
65. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
66. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
68. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
72. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
74. A sizeable hole (usually in the ground).
76. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
78. The fifth day of the week.
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