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1. A neutral middle vowel.
5. An unintentional but embarrassing blunder.
12. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
15. Deprive (infants) of mother's milk.
16. The supreme commander of a fleet.
17. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
18. A lyric poet.
19. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
20. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
22. Not dense.
23. Shiny substance that resemble enamel and is secreted by the corium of certain fishes (especially ganoid fishes) and composes the outer layer of their scales.
25. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
26. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
29. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
30. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
32. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
34. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
37. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
39. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
40. The food served and eaten at one time.
41. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
45. Unknown god.
46. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
51. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
52. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
55. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.
57. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
59. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
61. Using the voice.
62. A state in east central United States.
63. A fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role.
64. A large number or amount.
69. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
72. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
73. A town in central Belgium.
75. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
76. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
77. Relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters.
79. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
80. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
81. An ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidney and so results in vasodilation.
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. The compass point that is one point south of southwest.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
4. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
5. Deep purplish red n 1.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. Distributed or sold illicitly.
8. Term of address for a man.
9. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947).
12. A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes.
13. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
14. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
21. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
28. Affected manners intended to impress others.
31. Go on board.
33. An informal term for a father.
35. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
36. Having winglike extensions.
38. Possessing material wealth.
42. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
43. Call upon in supplication.
44. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
47. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
48. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
49. A category in some early taxonomies.
50. Type genus of the Polygalaceae.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. Large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers.
58. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
60. A town in central Belgium.
65. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
66. Speaking a Slavic language.
67. The time during which someone's life continues.
68. In addition.
70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
71. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
74. Considerate and solicitous care.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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