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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside. 4. Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way. 12. A benevolent aspect of Devi. 15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization. 16. Of or relating to Liberia or its people. 17. A slight amount or degree of difference. 18. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers. 19. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees. 20. The sacred city of Lamaism. 21. A small cake leavened with yeast. 23. Illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds. 25. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). 26. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). 28. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784). 30. A temporary police force. 33. Lose clarity or turn aside esp. from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. 37. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma. 38. 16 ounces. 41. Enthusiastic approval. 42. The state prevailing during the absence of war. 47. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength. 48. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria. 50. Goddess of fate. 52. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style. 53. In place of, or as an alternative to. 54. Emitting or as if emitting blood. 56. A state in northwestern North America. 58. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue. 59. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors. 60. Provide with a terrace, as of a house. 65. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 67. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion. 68. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products. 71. Bottle that has a narrow neck. 74. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931). 75. Any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language. 77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar. 78. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis. 79. A group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces. 81. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea. 82. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv. 83. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret. 84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A coarse obnoxious person. 2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America. 3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC). 4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism. 5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984). 6. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds. 7. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 8. (Greek mythology) A giant with 100 eyes. 9. Favoring one person or side over another. 10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily. 11. Make larger. 12. A state in the western United States. 13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages. 14. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology. 22. An associate degree in applied science. 24. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images. 27. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the moon in ancient mythology. 29. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office. 31. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere. 32. A woman's close-fitting foundation garment. 34. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense. 35. A loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body. 36. Heavy filling (and usually starchy) food. 39. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element. 40. Material used to daub walls. 43. Someone who provides food and service (as for a party). 44. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold. 45. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor. 46. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings. 49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light. 51. Among the largest bony fish. 55. Made of fir or pine. 57. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract. 61. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 62. Large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods. 63. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails. 64. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 66. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann. 69. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges. 70. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed. 72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike. 73. God of love and erotic desire. 76. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot. 80. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.