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1. A decree that prohibits something.
4. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
11. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
15. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
17. Very close and convivial.
18. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
19. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
21. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
22. A cleric who ordains.
24. A resource.
25. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
26. Make certain of.
28. A forbidding stronghold.
31. The capital of Croatia.
34. A master's degree in business.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. Leafless East Indian vine.
43. The month following February and preceding April.
47. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
48. Having a mental age of three to seven years.
50. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
51. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
56. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
59. Jordan's port.
61. The animal order including amoebas.
65. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
69. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
70. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. A passage with access only at one end.
76. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sicily or the people of Sicily.
78. Being four more than fifty.
79. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
80. (comparative and superlative of `early') More early than.
81. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. A genus of Indriidae.
3. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
4. Tired of the world.
5. How long something has existed.
6. An East Indian sailor.
7. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
8. A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae.
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A musician who plays the oboe.
12. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
13. A blind god.
14. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
20. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
23. Material used to daub walls.
27. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
29. Submerged freshwater perennials.
30. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
32. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
33. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
35. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
36. Collect or gather.
37. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
39. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
40. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
42. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. Genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
53. Informal terms for a mother.
54. A state in northwestern North America.
57. Lower in esteem.
58. Half the width of an em.
60. Ruined by overcooking.
62. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
63. Look at with amorous intentions.
64. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
66. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
67. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
68. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
71. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
72. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
73. An associate degree in applied science.
77. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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