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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Elder brother of Krishna.
12. Inquire about.
15. How long something has existed.
16. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. Insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. A system of conveying mail by aircraft.
23. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
25. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
27. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
29. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
30. Causing alarm or fear.
35. The wife of a sheik.
39. Relating to or accompanying birth.
40. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
41. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
43. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
44. A rapid bustling commotion.
45. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
50. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
52. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
55. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
56. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
58. A woman gossip.
59. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
62. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
65. A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera.
68. Of or concerning Qatar.
72. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
73. A swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin).
76. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
77. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
78. The largest city of China.
79. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
80. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. God of fire.
3. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
4. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
5. Absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect).
6. (trade mark) Yarn that has an elastic core wound around with cotton or silk or nylon or rayon threads.
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
9. A statement asserting the existence or the truth of something.
10. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
11. A unit of pressure.
12. A city in northern India.
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870).
26. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
28. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
31. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
32. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
33. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
34. A tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia.
36. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
37. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
38. A genus of Ploceidae.
42. Lower in esteem.
46. A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
53. Greek philosopher and astronomer.
54. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
61. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
63. Light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity).
64. Short and fat.
66. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).
67. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
69. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
70. A Hindu prince or king in India.
71. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
74. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
75. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
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