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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. The academic world.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
16. Leisure time away from work.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. A person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable v 1.
20. Complacently or inanely foolish.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
22. A mountain range in China.
23. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
27. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
29. A city in Taiwan.
33. A genus of small kites of both Old and New Worlds.
37. The highest level or degree attainable.
38. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. A river in southeastern France.
42. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
46. A sharp blow.
47. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Acutely insightful and wise.
52. Any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
58. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
59. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
60. The main stem of a tree.
62. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
66. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
70. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
71. 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.
74. A port city in western Turkey.
75. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. Having been read.
81. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
82. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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1. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
2. Cheese containing a blue mold.
3. Conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane.
4. Admit openly and bluntly.
5. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
8. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
9. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
10. Add ions to.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A share of something.
24. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
26. In operation or operational.
28. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
30. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
31. Mix together different elements.
32. Taken or to be taken at random.
34. In accord with the most fashionable ideas or style.
35. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
36. One who sets written material into type.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
40. Remove from the bar.
43. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
44. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
45. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
48. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
51. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
57. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
59. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
61. One thousand periods per second.
69. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
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