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ACROSS

1. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities. 4. A happening that is distinctive in a series of related events. 11. A small cake leavened with yeast. 15. Of southern Europe. 16. A genus of Cichlidae. 17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 18. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity. 19. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland). 21. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (12851349). 23. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces. 25. A woolen cap of Scottish origin. 26. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element. 28. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan. 30. Having strength or power greater than average or expected. 34. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate. 38. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people. 39. Employed in accomplishing something. 42. Behave in a certain manner. 43. An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting. 45. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand. 47. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea. 48. (informal) Of the highest quality. 49. Not accepting reservations. 51. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters. 52. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona. 55. Fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade. 58. French mathematician who founded number theory. 61. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants. 62. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. 65. A native or inhabitant of Nubia. 67. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley. 69. The state of being salient. 73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 74. The segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British). 77. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll. 78. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head. 79. Lead someone in the wrong direction. 81. (used as a combining form) Recent or new. 82. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism. 83. A great raja. 84. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).

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1. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife. 2. One thousandth of a second. 3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum. 4. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh. 5. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement. 6. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium. 7. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng. 8. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color. 9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984). 10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 11. The cry made by sheep. 12. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine. 13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 14. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology. 20. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves. 22. (geology) Before the appearance of life. 24. A metrical unit with unstressedstressed syllables. 27. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia). 29. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment. 31. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule. 32. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia. 33. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman. 35. Cause to suffer. 36. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning. 37. 100 pesewas equal 1 cedi. 40. A firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater. 41. A doctor's degree in dental surgery. 44. A specific instance of feeling hopeful. 46. 30 to 300 gigahertz. 50. 1 species. 53. A rounded thickly curled hairdo. 54. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese. 56. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports. 57. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches. 59. An associate degree in nursing. 60. Oriental moth that produces brownish silk. 63. A brief description given for purposes of identification. 64. Jordan's port. 66. An oil port in southern Iraq. 68. Russian physicist (1895-1971). 70. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea. 71. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it. 72. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company. 75. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes. 76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey). 80. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.