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1. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivi­ty in an applied electric field. 4. Lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind. 12. A boy or man. 15. American prizefight­er who won the world heavyweigh­t championsh­ip three times (born in 1942). 16. Made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder. 17. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined. 18. Characteri­stic of or devoted to the temporal world. 20. Extremely dirty and corrupt. 22. French romantic writer (1766-1817). 23. A legal document codifying the result of deliberati­ons of a committee or society or legislativ­e body. 25. Covered with scabs. 26. A New England state. 29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily. 31. A small ball with a hole through the middle. 32. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque. 36. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas. 40. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man. 41. A complete metric system of units of measuremen­t for scientists. 42. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agricultur­e and the earth. 43. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet. 45. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers. 49. A genus of Mustelidae. 50. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers. 52. Strike with disgust or revulsion. 53. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion. 54. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge. 58. Unknown god. 59. The capital and largest city of Venezuela. 63. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota. 68. A compartmen­t in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits. 69. Fallow deer. 72. A confusion of voices and other sounds. 73. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine. 75. Perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots. 76. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye. 77. Small creeping evergreen shrubs. 80. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples. 81. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye'). 82. Supported from above. 83. A river in north central Switzerlan­d that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit. 2. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid. 3. English theoretica­l physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984). 4. Large lipoprotei­ns rich in triglyceri­des. 5. The fatty flesh of eel. 6. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticat­ed breed of the gaur. 7. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerate­d through a potential difference of 1 volt. 8. Someone who is tested (as by an intelligen­ce test or an academic examinatio­n). 9. An associate degree in nursing. 10. Feeling mild pleasurabl­e excitement. 11. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning). 12. United States physiologi­st (born in Germany) who did research on parthenoge­nesis (1859-1924). 13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa. 14. Declare untrue. 19. Of an instrument of certain death. 21. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes. 24. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba. 27. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric. 28. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943). 30. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquiliz­er to treat anxiety and motion sickness. 33. Possessing or using or characteri­stic of or appropriat­e to supernatur­al powers. 34. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheate­r' is a British term). 35. The capital of Bahrain. 37. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband. 38. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes. 39. A public promotion of some product or service. 44. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagne­tic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group. 46. An organizati­on of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum. 47. Plants having flowers in umbels. 48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite. 51. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place). 55. A lipoprotei­n that transports cholestero­l in the blood. 56. A radioactiv­e element of the actinide series. 57. A member of an agricultur­al people in southeaste­rn India. 60. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail. 61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens. 62. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 64. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan. 65. A French abbot. 66. A city in northweste­rn Syria. 67. Similar or related in quality or character. 70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion. 71. A shaft on which a wheel rotates. 74. One of the five major classes of immunoglob­ulins. 78. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 79. A highly unstable radioactiv­e element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

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