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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. An accidental happening.
16. A small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe.
17. A boy or man.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having 3-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring.
20. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
21. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds.
23. An appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. Surround so as to force to give up.
31. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
35. In the Roman calendar.
36. Squash bugs.
39. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
40. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
42. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
44. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
45. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
46. A radioactive transuranic element.
48. An antibiotic (a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin)) used to treat bacterial infections.
51. Type genus of the Plataleidae.
54. Affectedly dainty or refined.
55. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
56. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
58. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
62. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
64. A bachelor's degree in science.
65. Having a woven pattern.
69. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. A British colony in the West Indies.
77. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
78. The seed of the cereal grass.
79. A prophet of the first century.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
4. Be compatible or in accordance with.
5. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
6. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces.
7. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
8. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
9. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
10. The epithelial tissue of the endometrium.
11. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. The probability of a specified outcome.
22. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
26. (informal) Very tired.
27. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
29. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
30. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
32. Omnivorous mammal of Central and South America.
33. The act of consuming food.
34. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. Ragout of game in a rich sauce.
41. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
43. The template for protein synthesis.
47. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
49. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
50. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
52. Slices of bread that have been toasted.
53. Informal terms for a meal.
57. (British English) A small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater.
59. Small usually single-celled reproductive body produced especially by certain bacteria and algae and fungi and nonflowering plants.
61. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
63. A low heavy horsecart without sides.
66. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. God of love and erotic desire.
70. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
71. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
72. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
76. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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