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1. Extremely pleasing.
4. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. An abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity or excitability.
17. A boy or man.
18. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
19. A group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales.
20. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
21. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
23. Either extremity of something that has length.
24. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
26. Possible to sell.
28. A small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye.
30. English monk and scholar (672-735).
32. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
35. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
38. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
40. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
42. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
44. Reading carefully with intent to remember.
46. Type genus of the Majidae.
47. Cut or impressed into a surface.
48. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. Extremely intricate.
53. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
55. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
57. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
65. A self-righteous or sanctimonious person.
70. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
73. Block passage through.
74. The basic unit of money in Iran.
77. (Irish) The sea personified.
78. South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers.
79. Lead someone in the wrong direction.
80. One or some or every or all without specification.
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1. A group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
4. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
5. An authoritative person who divines the future.
6. Being one more than nine.
7. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
8. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980).
9. Adult female chicken.
10. The act of using.
11. Smeared with something that soils or stains.
12. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
13. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
14. Chief port of Yemen.
22. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
25. Quick to take offense.
27. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
29. The basic monetary unit of Portugal.
31. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
34. Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.
36. Jordan's port.
37. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
39. The residue that remains when something is burned.
41. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
43. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
45. A city in southeastern South Korea.
50. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
52. A British doctorate.
54. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
61. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
63. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
64. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
66. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
67. Type genus of the Sulidae.
68. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
69. Suggestive of the supernatural.
71. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
72. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
75. After noon.
76. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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