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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers.
12. The month following September and preceding November.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. United under a central government.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A slight amount or degree of difference.
19. Very sad.
20. State in northeastern India.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
26. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
30. A container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual).
32. Firmly fastened or secured against opening.
34. Appeal or request earnestly.
36. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Usually used of physical or mental injury to persons.
46. An awkward stupid person.
49. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
50. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
54. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
55. Produced by aphesis.
58. (trademark) An antacid.
60. Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.
62. Philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
64. A parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections.
66. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
70. The sixth month of the civil year.
71. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
74. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
75. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
76. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
78. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
79. Humble request for help.
80. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
81. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A boy or man.
4. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
5. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
6. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
7. A desert in southern Israel.
8. Any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii).
9. One who works hard at boring tasks.
10. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
11. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
12. A fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
13. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
14. An animal trainer who tames wild animals.
21. Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs.
23. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
25. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
27. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
28. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
29. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
35. Being three more than fifty.
37. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
39. Of or relating to or involving an area.
40. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
41. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
45. (Greek mythology) Queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus.
47. A fee charged for the use of a wharf.
48. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
53. Type genus of the Amiidae.
56. A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
61. Of or relating to the feet.
63. A drama set to music.
65. Fallow deer.
67. A Russian river.
68. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
72. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
73. The bill in a restaurant.
77. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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