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1. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. The world's largest active volcano.
17. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
18. Of the blackest black.
19. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
20. Jordan's port.
22. Use up, as of resources or materials.
24. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
25. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
26. A farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
28. Jordan's port.
30. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
31. A dark purplish red.
34. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
36. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
39. An informal term for a father.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
48. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
51. Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955.
53. A barrier that serves to enclose an area.
54. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
55. Traveling on horseback.
57. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
59. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
60. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
63. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
65. Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
68. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
69. A seaport on the Don River near the Sea of Azov in the European part of Russia.
72. (of a number) Having a fixed and unchanging value.
74. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Of or relating to Canada or its people.
78. Fiddler crabs.
79. The last (12th) month of the year.
80. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
81. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
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1. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
2. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
3. Be overly critical.
4. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
5. United States film actor and director (born in 1927).
6. Provide evidence for.
7. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
8. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
9. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
10. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
11. Having two axes.
12. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
13. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
14. The complete duration of something.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
27. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
29. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
32. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
33. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
35. Muslim name for God.
37. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. An edict of the Russian tsar.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
44. A state in east central United States.
46. On, to, or at the top.
47. A prophet of the first century.
49. Family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface.
50. A set of clothing (with accessories).
52. Capital of Armenia.
56. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
58. Wild ginger.
61. Any plant of the genus Erica.
62. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
64. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
66. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
67. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
70. An enclosed space.
71. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
73. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
77. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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