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1. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
4. A miserly person.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. A unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter.
16. The quantity broken.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Being seven more than seventy.
20. 1 species.
21. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. Organized opposition to authority.
23. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
25. Being three more than fifty.
29. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
37. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
40. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
41. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s.
43. Belonging to some prior time.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
46. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
47. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
48. A nation in northern North America.
50. Unknown god.
52. Towards the side away from the wind.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
56. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
58. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
62. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
67. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
69. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
72. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
73. Showing deterioration from age.
76. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
77. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
78. A person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression.
80. Little known Kamarupan languages.
81. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
82. Walks with regular or stately step.
83. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
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1. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
2. Elegant and sumptuous.
3. Being five more than seventy.
4. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
5. Of or relating to located near the iris of the eye.
6. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
7. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
8. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
9. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
10. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
11. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
19. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina.
24. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
31. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
34. Obvious and dull.
35. Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997).
36. Someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall.
38. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
39. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
42. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. An implement used to erase something.
55. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
57. A port city in southwestern Iran.
60. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
61. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
64. Jordan's port.
66. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
68. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
70. (Greek mythology) God of love.
71. Made of packed earth or gravel.
74. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
75. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
79. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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