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1. Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants.
5. The capital and largest city of Cyprus.
12. A proportion multiplied by 100.
15. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
16. Ostentatiously lofty in style.
17. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
18. Being nothing more than specified.
19. An Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf.
20. Towards the side away from the wind.
21. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
23. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
24. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
26. Capable of being added or added to.
28. Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life.
30. Be teeming, be abuzz.
31. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
32. One thousand periods per second.
33. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
37. A genus of Mustelidae.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
44. Necessary for relief or supply.
46. A genus of Pyralidae.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
52. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
56. A state in southeastern United States.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible.
62. Edible agaric that is pale lilac when young.
66. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. The lean flesh of a saltwater fish found it warm waters (especially Hawaii).
75. An associate degree in applied science.
76. Estrangement from god.
77. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
78. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
79. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
80. A great raja.
81. The month following March and preceding May.
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1. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
3. Flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds.
4. The fifth month of the civil year.
5. Deprive of by deceit.
6. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
7. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
8. Discharge from the external ear.
9. Consent reluctantly.
10. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
11. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
12. Transmitting light.
13. (Greek mythology) The brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.
14. A general direction in which something tends to move.
22. In bed.
25. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
27. The square of a body of any size of type.
29. The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
34. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
35. A city in Indonesia.
36. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
38. A proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys.
39. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
41. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. Receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart.
53. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
54. Offering fun and gaiety.
55. An associate degree in nursing.
57. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
58. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
60. An inflammatory swelling or sore.
63. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
64. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
65. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
68. Slightly wet.
69. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
72. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
73. The month following February and preceding April.
74. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
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