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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. Decreasing in amount or intensity.
11. An unforeseen obstacle.
15. The chance to speak.
16. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
17. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
18. Female of domestic cattle.
19. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).
20. 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.
21. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
23. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
24. Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air.
26. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
28. Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement.
29. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
31. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
34. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
40. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
41. A French abbot.
44. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
48. An antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus.
51. Slow or shallow breathing.
54. A former French unit of area.
55. A Spanish river.
56. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
58. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
60. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
62. French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people.
66. Dressed in trousers.
70. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
71. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
74. Not widely known.
75. Black tropical American cuckoo.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
79. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
80. Of warm coasts from Australia to Asia.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
2. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
3. A side road little traveled (as in the countryside).
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. Small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe.
6. Advanced in years.
7. An analgesic for mild pain.
8. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
9. A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
10. God of wisdom or prophesy.
11. English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766).
12. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
13. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
14. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
22. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
25. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
27. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
30. An ordered reference standard.
32. (Irish) Goddess.
33. A soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider.
35. Causing a dull and steady pain.
36. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
39. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria.
46. A small float usually made of cork.
49. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
50. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
52. Rule of personal conduct.
53. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
57. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
59. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
61. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
63. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
64. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
65. A particular environment or walk of life.
67. Armor plate that protects the chest.
68. Flowing in drops.
69. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
72. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
73. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
77. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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