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1. A man who serves as a sailor.
4. Exaggerated masculinity.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
20. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
22. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
24. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
25. A glass for beer.
27. God of wealth and love.
29. Before noon.
31. Not only so, but.
32. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
35. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
37. Any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A rapid bustling commotion.
45. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
49. Falcon-headed solar god.
50. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
53. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
54. A white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing.
56. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
59. 1 species.
62. Type genus of the Laniidae.
64. American novelist (1909-1955).
66. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
70. The airforce of Great Britain.
73. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
74. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
78. 10 grams.
79. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
80. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
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1. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
2. A slender double-reed instrument.
3. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
4. (South African) An ear of corn.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
6. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
7. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
8. Goddess of fertility.
9. Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush.
10. A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law.
11. In operation or operational.
12. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. A human female who does housework.
19. Goddess of love and fecundity.
21. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
23. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
33. An azure blue semiprecious stone.
34. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
36. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
42. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
46. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
47. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
48. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
51. Determine the essential quality of.
52. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
58. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
60. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
61. Make less visible or unclear.
63. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
65. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s.
67. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
68. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
69. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
71. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
72. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
76. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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