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1. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
5. Basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle.
12. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
15. An inlaid furniture decoration.
16. Relating to or resembling a carina.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
19. Conspicuously and offensively loud.
20. Tag the base runner to get him out.
21. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
23. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
24. A branch of the Tai languages.
26. A large fleet.
29. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
31. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
32. In bed.
35. (British) Your grandmother.
37. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
40. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
42. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
45. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
46. Young sheep.
48. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
49. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
50. The capital of Western Samoa.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
53. Basic principles of the cosmos.
56. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
58. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
59. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
64. An ancient city is southern Greece.
67. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
71. A Scottish word.
72. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
75. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
76. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
80. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
81. A boy or man.
82. German biologist and philosopher.
83. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. A river in western Asia.
3. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
4. A city and port in northern Jutland.
5. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
6. A salt of any halogen acid.
7. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
8. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
9. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
10. An island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa.
11. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
22. Affect with wonder.
25. Strip something of drapery.
27. The month following March and preceding May.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
33. An administrative unit of government.
34. A shelter from danger or hardship.
36. A genus of bee.
38. A gay feeling.
39. Jordan's port.
41. (slang) The act of stealing.
43. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
44. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
47. Capable of wounding.
54. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
55. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
57. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
60. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
65. A member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California.
66. Wearing or provided with clothing.
68. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
69. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
70. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
73. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
74. The basic unit of money in Albania.
77. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
78. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
79. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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