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1. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. Uttering in an irritated tone.
15. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
16. Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity).
17. English essayist (1775-1834).
18. How long something has existed.
19. A thermionic tube having four electrodes.
20. (prefix) Half or partial.
21. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
23. The head of the golf club that strikes the ball.
25. Not only so, but.
28. Distance travelled per unit time.
29. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
33. Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
39. A republic in Central America.
44. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
45. The month following July and preceding September.
46. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
47. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
49. The father of your father or mother.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
52. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
53. An analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals.
56. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
57. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
58. A Russian river.
59. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
61. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
77. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
78. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
79. Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Relating to or containing gas bubbles.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
4. Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper.
5. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
6. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
7. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
8. Needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle.
9. (of eggs) No longer edible.
10. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
11. Shape anew or differently.
12. On or toward the lee.
13. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
14. Marked by the reception of pay.
22. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
24. German composer (1833-1897).
26. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
27. Feeling mild pleasurable excitement.
30. A Pacific island north of Australia.
31. A building where birds are kept.
32. (horseshoes) The throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake.
34. A period of time assigned for work.
35. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
36. (of soil) Soft and watery.
40. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
41. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
42. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
43. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
48. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
50. A quantity of no importance.
54. Belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part.
55. A port city in southwestern Iran.
60. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
64. A fraudulent business scheme.
65. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
66. Fallow deer.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. God of love and erotic desire.
71. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
72. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
73. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
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