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1. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
4. Headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather.
11. An account describing incidents or events.
15. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
16. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
17. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. United States composer (born in Italy) of operas (born in 1911).
20. Water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs.
21. 3rd largest island in the world.
23. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
27. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
28. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
36. Being or affecting only a part.
38. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
40. (medieval legends) The bride of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
41. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
44. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. 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.
49. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
52. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
55. Type genus of the Anatidae.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. Young of domestic cattle.
60. A person whose head is bald.
63. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
64. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion.
67. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
71. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
72. 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal.
75. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
76. The basic unit of money in Romania.
77. Direct opposite.
79. A negative.
80. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
81. A great raja.
82. A branch of the Tai languages.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
3. Impairment resulting from long use.
4. The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
5. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
6. (British) Informal term for information.
7. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
8. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
9. Not reflecting light.
10. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
11. 1 species.
12. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
13. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
14. At or constituting a border or edge.
22. A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
25. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
26. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
29. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
30. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
31. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
32. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
33. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
34. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
35. (botany) Bearing a coma.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
42. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. The eleventh month of the civil year.
48. A dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap.
50. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
51. Covered with paving material.
53. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
58. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
59. Coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude.
61. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
62. Mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
65. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
66. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
68. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
70. Knock unconscious or senseless.
73. The month following March and preceding May.
74. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
78. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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