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1. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
4. Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. Bark in a high-pitched tone.
16. Pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves).
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
20. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. A city in northwestern Syria.
26. A master's degree in business.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
30. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
34. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
38. United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (born 1906).
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
42. At any time.
43. A transuranic element.
44. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
45. An abdominal tumor.
47. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
50. Toward the mouth or oral region.
52. Take by theft.
53. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
54. With no effort to conceal.
56. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
64. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
67. A master's degree in fine arts.
70. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
75. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
77. Squash bugs.
79. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
80. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
82. A thrusting blow with a knife.
83. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
84. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
2. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
3. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
4. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
5. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. Lacking gonads.
7. Type genus of the Nepidae.
8. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
9. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
12. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Offering fun and gaiety.
19. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
23. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
24. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
25. Late time of life.
29. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
31. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
32. (used of an anchor) Hanging clear of the bottom.
33. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
35. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
36. Tasting sour like a lemon.
37. Someone who makes frames (as for pictures).
39. Order by virtue of superior authority.
41. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
48. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
49. Largest crested screamer.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
60. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. A French abbot.
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