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1. Make or shape as with an axe.
4. A low bed to be slid under a higher bed.
11. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
15. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
16. Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India.
17. Avatar of Vishnu.
18. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
20. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
21. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
22. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
25. A special loved one.
27. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
29. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
30. Having a woven pattern.
34. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
37. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
40. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
41. The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. Of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. Sweet Madeira wine.
51. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
52. Singing jazz.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
55. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
58. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
60. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
62. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
64. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
68. Clean or orderly.
70. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
73. A branch of the Tai languages.
74. German mathematician (1804-1851).
77. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
79. A master's degree in business.
80. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
81. A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels).
83. Tag the base runner to get him out.
84. The act of using.
85. City in central Iran.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Having services engaged for a fee.
2. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
3. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
4. A bachelor's degree in theology.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
7. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
8. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
9. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
10. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
11. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
12. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
13. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
28. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. Squash bugs.
32. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
33. African mahogany trees.
35. The food served and eaten at one time.
36. A dyed fabric.
38. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
39. Wood of a sumac.
42. (music) A pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
49. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
50. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
53. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
56. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
57. Having leadership guidance.
59. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
61. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
63. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
65. A genus of Lamnidae.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. Jordan's port.
69. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
75. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
76. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
82. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
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