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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. United States poet (1884-1933).
12. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
15. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
16. The honeycreepers.
17. The fatty flesh of eel.
18. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
19. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
21. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
23. A building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services.
24. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
25. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
28. A complex of enzymes that cause glycolysis.
30. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
31. To put down by force or authority.
35. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
37. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
40. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
41. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
43. Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed.
44. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
46. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
48. French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834).
49. (informal) Exceptionally good.
51. A genus of Indriidae.
52. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
53. The sound made by corvine birds.
55. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. Half the width of an em.
59. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
63. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
66. Fallow deer.
69. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
70. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
73. Perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots.
74. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
75. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
77. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
78. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
79. An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. One of the three sections of the hipbone.
2. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
3. A pair of shoes with cleats on the soles.
4. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
7. A short sleep (usually not in bed).
8. A short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung).
9. A lack of vitality.
10. A dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland.
11. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
12. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
13. Altered from an originally straight condition.
14. Speaking a Slavic language.
20. A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes.
22. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
29. The largest city of China.
32. East Indian annual erect herb.
33. A colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins.
34. Become taut or tauter.
36. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
38. A native or inhabitant of Slovakia.
39. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
42. Using speech rather than writing.
45. Pasta in the form of slender tubes.
47. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
50. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
54. The sensation caused by heat energy.
56. A light touch or stroke.
57. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
60. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
61. Greek mythology.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
65. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
67. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
68. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
71. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
72. The cry made by sheep.
76. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
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