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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. (linguistics) Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.
11. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
15. The basic unit of money in Albania.
16. Of or relating to the gonads.
17. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
20. French poet and novelist and dramatist.
21. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
23. A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England.
25. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
27. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
29. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
31. A Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan.
33. A public toilet in a military area.
36. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
38. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
40. A genus of Scolopacidae.
41. The expression on a person's face.
42. Eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea.
44. An affirmative.
45. A unit of pressure.
47. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
48. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
50. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
51. A horse-drawn carriage in India.
53. A young woman making her debut into society.
55. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
56. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
58. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
61. A building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire.
66. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
69. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
71. The habitation of wild animals.
72. Sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others.
75. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
76. Take in solid food.
77. The triad of divinities of later Hinduism.
79. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
80. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
81. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
3. Jordan's port.
4. How long something has existed.
5. Not regulated or sanctioned by law.
6. Not firm or firmly fixed.
7. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
10. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
11. 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.
12. In a sturdy manner.
13. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
14. Extremely robust.
22. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
24. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.
26. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
28. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
30. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.
32. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
34. A daughter of your brother or sister.
35. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
37. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
39. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
43. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. Eukaryotic one-celled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals.
49. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
52. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
54. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. Being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry.
60. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
62. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
63. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
64. Arm again.
65. (informal) The best of its kind n.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
70. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
73. Lacking in light.
74. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
78. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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