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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. Trade name for a drug containing an antihistamine and a decongestant.
11. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. A secret society in Naples notorious for violence and blackmail.
17. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
18. The capital of Croatia.
20. A light clear metallic sound as of a small bell.
21. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. Lower in esteem.
28. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
30. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
33. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
36. Overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality.
40. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. A Russian river.
42. Moving quickly and lightly.
44. Gone by.
45. Found along western Atlantic coast.
47. Being two more than ninety.
50. Before noon.
51. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
53. Type genus of the family Plantaginaceae.
55. Any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures.
58. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
61. English actress (1847-1928).
62. Not used in all classifications.
66. (used informally) Completely unclothed.
70. The basic unit of money in Macao.
71. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
74. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
75. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
76. Capital and largest city of Yugoslavia.
79. A master's degree in education.
80. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
81. A great raja.
82. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
8. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
9. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
10. 10 grams.
11. A town in central Pennsylvania.
12. A state of northeastern India.
13. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
14. Related on the mother's side.
19. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
26. Big-eyed scad.
27. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
29. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
31. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
32. The month following March and preceding May.
34. The state of being unsure of something.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
38. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
39. Made from baking chocolate or cocoa powder and milk and sugar.
43. Small songbirds resembling larks.
46. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
48. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
49. A person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance.
52. A genus of Paridae.
54. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
56. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
57. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
63. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
64. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
65. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
68. Divisible by two.
69. An informal term for a father.
72. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
73. The cry made by sheep.
77. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
78. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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