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1. Young sheep.
5. Derived from, or resembling, tan or tannin.
11. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
15. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
16. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets.
17. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
18. Affected manners intended to impress others.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Columba and Eridanus.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
23. An insane person.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
33. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system.
36. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
37. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
38. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
41. A farewell remark.
43. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
46. Wearing or provided with clothing.
47. Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words.
48. One thousand periods per second.
50. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
51. A minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. English essayist (1775-1834).
59. Flowing in drops.
62. Wig for men fashionable in 17th-18th centuries.
66. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
68. The second largest state.
69. Resulting from inflammation.
71. A person to whom money is paid.
74. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
75. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
76. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
78. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
79. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
80. Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. The 4th planet from the sun.
4. An electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits.
5. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
8. Large Indian antelope.
9. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
10. Transactions having the objective of supplying commodities.
11. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
12. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
13. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
14. A particular environment or walk of life.
22. The quantity that can be contained in the arms.
24. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
26. A fragment of brick used as a weapon.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
28. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
31. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
32. Growing old.
34. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. A blind god.
49. Cause to move back by force or influence.
52. Capable of being added or added to.
53. Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes.
57. Of or relating to the corpus luteum.
58. Being nine more than fifty.
60. Guinea fowl.
61. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
63. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
67. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
70. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
72. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
73. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
77. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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