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1. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
4. Formality in bearing and appearance.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. Genus of perennial wildflowers of North American plains and prairies.
17. An informal debt instrument.
18. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
19. A person who owns or operates oil wells.
20. A mental representation of some haunting experience.
22. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
25. Any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers.
27. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
28. The sixth month of the civil year.
30. Large drinking vessel with one handle.
32. Small and light boat.
34. Before noon.
35. The act of arousing.
39. A state in southeastern United States.
40. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. Something causes misery or death.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
47. Music composed for dancing the saraband.
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
53. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up.
56. A decree that prohibits something.
57. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
62. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
66. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
67. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
69. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. (British) Property that provides tax income for local governments.
75. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
76. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
77. Youthful appearance in an old person.
78. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
79. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
80. A band worn around or over the head.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. The content of cognition.
3. A city of central China.
4. 100 groszy equal 1 zloty.
5. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
6. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
7. A healthy capacity for vigorous activity.
8. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
9. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
12. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
13. Very close in friendship or affection.
14. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
21. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
23. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
24. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
26. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
31. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. The act of rising upward into the air.
37. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
38. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
45. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
46. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. Obvious and dull.
51. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
52. (Judaism) A candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation.
54. Make steady.
55. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
58. (with `in') Guardianship over.
60. Beet lacking swollen root.
61. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
63. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
68. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
72. How long something has existed.
73. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
74. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
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