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1. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
5. Most quickly.
12. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
15. American novelist (1909-1955).
16. An amoeba-like protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. An elderly man.
19. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
20. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
21. Type genus of the Amiidae.
22. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
26. A town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River.
28. United States space station.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. A flexible container with a single opening.
36. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
42. A small drum with one head of soft calfskin.
44. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829).
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
50. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. Coat a metal with an oxide coat.
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
58. 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.
60. Fallow deer.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. God of dawn and light.
72. In addition.
73. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
76. An informal term for a father.
77. A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished.
78. Kauri pine.
79. 10 grams.
80. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
81. Someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
82. The month following April and preceding June.
83. Being ten more than eighty.
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1. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. Outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts).
4. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
5. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
9. Late time of life.
10. 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.
11. Arrange in tabular form.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
23. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
25. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
27. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
29. A soft silvery metallic element.
32. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
34. The doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element.
35. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
37. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
38. Slanderous defamation.
40. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
41. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
43. An oil port in southern Iraq.
45. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A decree that prohibits something.
51. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
53. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. (electronics) A sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients).
71. Being in a tense state.
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