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1. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
4. City in central Iran.
11. An informal term for a father.
15. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea. 16.The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
17. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
19. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
21. A pauper who lives by begging.
23. (Judeo-Christian religion) Chief spirit of evil and adversary of God.
25. A light touch or stroke.
26. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
28. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid.
30. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
32. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
35. The capital of Nationalist China.
38. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
41. Baby bed with high sides.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. The act of scanning.
45.The act of delivering a blow with the foot.
46. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
49. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
50. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. Genus of western North American lowgrowing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers.
55. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. American Revolutionary patriot.
60. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
62. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
65. Enthusiastic approval.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
74. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
76. (British) Your grandmother.
77. A city in east central Texas.
78. In consequence of which.
80. A branch of the Tai languages.
81. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
82. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
83. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
2. Closed with a lace.
3. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
4. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. Extremely pleasing.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. Treated with contempt.
9. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
12. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
22. (New Testament) One of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus.
24. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
27. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
29. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
31. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
33. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.
34. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
36. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
37. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
39. Water frozen in the solid state.
40. Little known Kamarupan languages.
42. A genus of Laridae.
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
48. A telegram sent abroad.
53. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
54. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
56. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
58. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
61. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
63. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
64. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
66. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
67. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
69. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
70. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
71. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
73. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
79. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.