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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. Characterized by friendship and good will.
12. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
15. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
16. Impressive in appearance.
17. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
18. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
20. Ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing.
21. How long something has existed.
22. American novelist (1909-1955).
23. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
25. Relating to or being a member of an ethnic group.
27. Top part of an apron.
29. A spectator who uses standing room (as in a theater when there are no vacant seats).
31. Before noon.
33. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
34. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
35. Of the color of rust.
39. Woody tissue.
41. A job in an organization.
42. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
43. Armor plate that protects the chest.
46. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
47. Hard smooth-textured cheese.
51. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
53. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.
54. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
61. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
63. A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea.
66. A cleric who ordains.
70. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
71. Fallow deer.
74. The cry made by sheep.
75. Give information or notice to.
77. Perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots.
78. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
79. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
81. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
82. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
83. Cover with a protective sheathing, as of a ship's bottom, for example, or the walls of a house.
84. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
2. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
6. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
7. Relating to or associated with a coma.
8. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
9. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
10. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
11. Fill with high spirits.
12. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
13. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
19. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
24. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
26. To this writing or document.
28. The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
30. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
32. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.
36. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
37. Scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object.
38. Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science.
40. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
44. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
45. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
48. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
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