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1. Toward the mouth or oral region.
5. Based on racial intolerance.
11. Singing jazz.
15. A coniferous tree.
16. Someone who admires a young woman.
17. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
18. Armor plate that protects the chest.
19. The female or generative principle.
20. A quantity of no importance.
21. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
23. One who reveals confidential information in return for money.
25. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
26. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
28. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
31. Made of or resembling lace.
32. (Roman mythology) A princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage.
36. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
38. A radioactive transuranic element.
40. (Irish) The sea personified.
41. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
42. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
46. Of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color n 1.
49. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
51. A primeval personification of air and breath.
52. Cruel or inhumane treatment.
53. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
54. 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.
55. A large number or amount.
58. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
59. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
64. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
70. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
71. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
72. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
74. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
75. A B vitamin that prevents beriberi.
77. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
78. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
79. An archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland.
80. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
3. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
4. Look down on with disdain.
5. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
6. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
7. Having a common axis.
8. Irritate or vex.
9. An unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes.
10. Felt hat with a creased crown.
11. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
12. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
13. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
14. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
29. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
30. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
33. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
34. The brightest star in Cygnus.
35. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
37. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
39. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
43. A large number or amount.
44. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
45. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
47. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
48. German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716).
50. Hormone secreted by the thymus.
56. A state in southeastern United States.
57. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. Make amendments to.
61. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
65. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
66. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. Having a long narrow cut.
68. A bluish shade of green.
69. Avatar of Vishnu.
73. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
76. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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