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1. Lie adjacent to another.
5. Tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia.
12. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
15. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
16. Plant materials and animal waste used as fuel.
17. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
18. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
20. Wild and menacing.
21. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
22. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
23. The capital and largest city of Greece.
26. Small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems.
28. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. A member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila.
39. (combining form) Very large in scale or scope or capability.
41. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
45. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
46. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
48. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
49. God of the Underworld.
51. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
52. A city in central Florida.
55. An Anatolian language.
58. East Indian flying squirrel.
59. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. The sixth month of the civil year.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
76. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
77. Pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts.
79. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
80. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
81. Acting or brought about through an intervening agency.
82. An audiotape recording of sound.
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1. A primeval personification of air and breath.
2. A vigorous blow.
3. Capital of modern Macedonia.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
5. Herbs or shrubs or small trees.
6. Being one more than fifty.
7. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
8. A sign of something about to happen.
9. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
10. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
11. The sign language used in the United States.
12. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
19. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
24. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
29. Fallow deer.
31. Type genus of the Gavidae.
34. A large fleet.
35. Large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly.
37. The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas.
38. A light touch or stroke.
40. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
42. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
43. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
44. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
47. Bound by chains fastened around the ankles.
50. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
53. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
54. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
60. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
61. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
63. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
67. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
69. In bed.
70. A Loloish language.
71. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
73. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
74. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
75. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
78. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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