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1. A bachelor's degree in theology.
4. Any period of seven consecutive days.
12. A city in the European part of Russia.
15. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
16. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
17. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
18. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
20. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
21. Brush turkeys.
23. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
25. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
27. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
28. Submerged freshwater perennials.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
34. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
36. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
38. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
41. Step on it.
42. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
47. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
48. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
49. In an unnatural eery manner.
50. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. A person forced to flee from home or country.
53. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
54. Ground snakes.
57. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
60. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
64. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
65. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
67. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
70. An ancient port on the Mediterranean.
73. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
77. Overgrown with ivy.
78. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
81. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
82. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
83. (sports) With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level.
85. Bound or secured closely.
86. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
87. South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.
88. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
2. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
3. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
4. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
5. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
6. English monk and scholar (672-735).
7. A doctor's degree in religion.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
10. Sour or bitter in taste.
11. The last (12th) month of the year.
12. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.
13. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
14. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
19. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
22. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
24. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
26. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. American novelist (1909-1955).
35. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
37. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
39. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
40. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
43. Type genus of the Nepidae.
44. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
45. (medicine) Chilly.
46. City in Sudan.
55. The 11 southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
56. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
58. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
61. Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656).
62. Before noon.
63. French film maker influenced by surrealism.
66. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
68. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
69. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
71. Being seven more than fifty.
72. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
74. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
75. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
76. An informal term for a father.
79. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
80. A local computer network for communication between computers.
84. A state in the eastern United States.
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