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1. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks.
11. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
15. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
16. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high).
17. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
18. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
20. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
21. The sister of your father or mother.
23. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
25. A student who studies excessively.
27. A state in midwestern United States.
28. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
29. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
32. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
34. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
37. East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder.
41. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
42. A track or mark left by something that has passed.
46. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
47. Informal terms for a meal.
51. Used of a single unit or thing.
53. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
55. Some point in the air.
57. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
59. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
61. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
65. A festival featuring African-American culture.
69. A quantity of no importance.
70. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
73. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
74. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
75. Beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae.
77. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
78. A beautiful and graceful girl.
79. Of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of of taxonomic classification that he proposed.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
2. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
3. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
4. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
5. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. Used especially of fruits.
7. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
8. An iconic mental representation.
9. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
10. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
11. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
12. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
13. Being three more than fifty.
14. The content of cognition.
19. Kauri pine.
22. Untie the lashing of.
24. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
26. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
30. Any of various units of capacity.
31. A deep bow.
33. Before noon.
35. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
36. Someone whose business is advertising.
38. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
39. Fed beyond capacity or desire.
40. A Mid-Atlantic state.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
44. A Loloish language.
45. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
48. Australian wild horse.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
52. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
54. Make or become coarse or coarser.
56. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
58. An associate degree in nursing.
60. Very large red gum tree.
62. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. Articles of the same kind or material.
67. The sixth month of the civil year.
68. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
71. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
72. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
76. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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