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1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
5. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
12. A tight-fitting headdress.
15. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
16. A city on the Loire river in north central France.
17. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
18. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
20. A shade of blue tinged with green.
21. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
22. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
24. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
26. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
27. Not out.
28. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
30. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
36. By bad luck.
39. The seventh month of the civil year.
42. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
43. An iconic mental representation.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
47. A Russian river.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
49. A high tight collar.
51. American Revolutionary patriot.
55. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
56. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
58. A state in midwestern United States.
59. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
61. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
64. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
66. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
69. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
70. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
73. Squash bugs.
75. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
77. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
82. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
83. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
84. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. Elegant and stylish.
2. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
3. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
4. The mother of Jesus.
5. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
7. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
8. Either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet.
9. The act of drawing or hauling something.
10. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
11. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
12. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
13. The highest level or degree attainable.
14. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
19. The square of a body of any size of type.
23. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
25. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
31. A town in southwestern Idaho.
33. Small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots.
35. A horizontal bar that goes across something.
37. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
38. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
40. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
41. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
50. Noisy quarrel.
52. A Mid-Atlantic state.
53. Shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer.
54. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
57. Communicate electronically on the computer.
60. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
62. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
63. A card game similar to ecarte.
65. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
67. Type genus of the Anatidae.
68. Similar to the color of jade.
71. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
72. Belonging to some prior time.
74. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. An informal term for a father.
80. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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