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1. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
5. Small genus of American herbs (American pennyroyal).
12. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
15. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
16. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
17. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
18. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
19. A beautiful and graceful girl.
21. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
23. A Bantu language.
24. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
25. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
27. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
29. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
33. A Mid-Atlantic state.
34. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
36. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
40. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
42. A variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game.
44. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal.
45. A state in midwestern United States.
46. A doctor's degree in optometry.
48. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
50. Of or relating to or characteristic of Swaziland or its people or their language.
52. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Alkeran) used to treat multiple myeloma and some other malignancies.
55. Moving upward and forward in a quick motion or series of motions.
59. Devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence.
60. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
62. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair.
64. The Spanish Navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719).
66. Of or relating to apnea.
70. The basic unit of money in Albania.
71. Of or relating to Papua or its people or language.
74. Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
78. An awkward stupid person.
79. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
80. A great raja.
81. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
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1. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
4. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
5. An accidental happening.
6. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. Armor plate that protects the chest.
9. In operation or operational.
10. A genus of herbs that resemble clover.
11. A public promotion of some product or service.
12. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
13. An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
14. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
20. Very light colored.
22. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
30. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
31. Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers.
32. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
35. The taxonomic kingdom of lower plants.
37. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
38. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
39. (prefix) Across or crossing or on the opposite side.
41. A large number or amount.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles.
49. Rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted.
51. Relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska.
53. An artificial source of visible illumination.
54. A festival featuring African-American culture.
56. A South American river.
57. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
58. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. A city in southeastern South Korea.
63. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
65. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
67. Very dark black.
68. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
69. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
72. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
73. The month following March and preceding May.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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