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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. A substance derived from amygdalin.
17. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
18. A durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color.
20. In ancient Semitic folklore.
22. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
23. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
24. Capable of being corrupted.
26. In the area or vicinity.
29. Affect with wonder.
30. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
32. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
33. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
37. A Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo.
39. Underworld organizations.
41. Satisfy (thirst).
42. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
43. Extremely robust.
44. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
46. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
48. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
51. The act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court).
52. Type genus of the Amiidae.
53. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
56. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
57. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
60. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
63. French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944).
66. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
70. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
71. True firs.
74. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
75. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
76. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
78. Bound or secured closely.
79. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
80. New Guinea echidnas.
81. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Have supper.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
4. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
5. A city in southeastern South Korea.
6. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
9. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
10. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
11. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
12. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
13. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
14. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
19. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.
21. A light shade of blue.
25. (usually plural) A destructive action.
27. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
28. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
31. Hairlike projection from the surface of a cell.
34. A fit of shivering.
35. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and norethynodrel.
36. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
38. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
40. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
45. A movement back from an impact.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
50. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
54. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
55. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
58. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
59. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
62. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
64. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
65. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
67. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
68. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
69. An informal term for a father.
72. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
73. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
77. A white trivalent metallic element.
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