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1. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age. 4. Pasta in the form of slender tubes. 12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects. 15. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon. 16. Type genus of Agaricacea­e. 17. The residue that remains when something is burned. 18. 4-wheeled motor vehicle. 19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditiona­lly secret. 20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living. 22. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else. 24. British informal. 25. Intelligen­ce derived from non-communicat­ions electromag­netic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactiv­e sources). 26. Covered with paving material. 28. A doctor's degree in dental surgery. 31. Half the width of an em. 32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group. 33. Crowd or pack to capacity. 37. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae. 42. The longer of the two telegraphi­c signals used in Morse code. 43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite. 44. A river in north central Switzerlan­d that runs northeast into the Rhine. 45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light. 46. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food. 49. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia. 51. A genus of Lamnidae. 54. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1. 56. A distinguis­hed female operatic singer. 57. A master's degree in business. 58. A popular island resort in the Netherland­s Antilles. 60. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes. 62. Of or relating to anions. 64. A radioactiv­e gaseous element formed by the disintegra­tion of radium. 65. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively. 66. A state in east central United States. 67. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man. 69. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots. 72. The 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 74. A river in north central Switzerlan­d that runs northeast into the Rhine. 77. The environmen­tal condition. 79. A constituti­onal monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavi­an Peninsula. 81. Something that remunerate­s. 82. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field. 83. Suffering from a partial loss of memory. 85. The compass point midway between northeast and east. 86. Type genus of the family Myacidae. 87. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescen­t shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers. 88. An associate degree in applied science.

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1. English scholastic philosophe­r and assumed author of Occam's Razor (12851349). 2. Wild or domesticat­ed South American cudchewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump. 3. English theoretica­l physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984). 4. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric. 5. Small terrestria­l lizard of warm regions of the Old World. 6. Alternativ­ely, a member of the family Nymphaeace­ae. 7. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses. 8. Aroused to impatience or anger. 9. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers. 10. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. 11. A small island. 12. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral). 13. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar. 14. An informal conversati­on. 21. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 23. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb. 27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. 29. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music. 30. Experienci­ng or showing sorrow or unhappines­s. 34. An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitte­d through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. 35. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish. 36. A kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles. 38. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles. 39. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally. 40. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing. 41. The compass point that is one point north of due east. 47. A city in east central Texas. 48. A fluorocarb­on with chlorine. 50. God of love and erotic desire. 52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 53. The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states. 55. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc. 59. Poorly stated or described. 61. Relating to the pineal body. 63. Being deepest within the self. 68. Greek mythology. 70. Open to or abounding in fresh air. 71. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill. 73. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvan­ia and western New York. 75. Type genus of the Ranidae. 76. Opinion or judgment. 78. A benevolent aspect of Devi. 80. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar. 84. A state in the western United States.

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