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1. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
4. A small sailing vessel.
12. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
15. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
16. The visual percept of a region.
17. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
20. Small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae.
21. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
22. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
24. Clearly superior or having the attributes of a winner.
26. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
28. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A human limb.
44. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
48. A Russian river.
50. A light touch or stroke.
51. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
52. Pertaining to animals or animal life or action.
54. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
56. A quantity of no importance.
58. A worker who lays tile.
59. Relating to or located near the organ that produces tears.
63. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
66. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
71. God of wealth and love.
73. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
74. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
75. A member of a people of India living in Maharashtra.
79. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
80. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
81. The act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity.
82. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
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1. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
2. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
3. A warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Not out.
7. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
8. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
9. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
10. Type genus of the Amiidae.
11. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
12. Strong and sharp.
13. Small and light boat.
14. (prefix) Across or crossing or on the opposite side.
19. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
23. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
25. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
32. An awkward stupid person.
33. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
35. To fix or set securely or deeply.
36. German mathematician (1804-1851).
37. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
39. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
40. Lower in esteem.
41. Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria) (1878-1965).
43. A street of small shops (especially in Orient).
46. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
49. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
53. (India) Flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle.
55. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
57. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
60. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
61. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
62. (of tempo) Slow adv.
64. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
65. God of death.
68. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
78. An associate degree in nursing.
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