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1. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
4. Marked by great carelessness.
12. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
15. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
16. Any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease.
17. A strong emotion.
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
20. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. Goddess of fate.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
29. 1/1000 gram.
31. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
33. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
34. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes.
36. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
39. A native of ancient Troy.
43. Member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
47. Step on it.
49. (medieval) A large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body.
50. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
54. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
59. The sixth month of the civil year.
60. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
62. Small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker.
66. An indication of approved or superior status.
70. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
71. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
74. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
75. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
76. (British) A restaurant where tea and light meals are available.
78. A Loloish language.
79. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
80. An anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy.
81. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
3. The twelfth month of the civil year.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. (physical chemistry) A distinct state of matter in a system.
8. Time during which some action is awaited.
9. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
10. Curved in two directions (like the letter S).
11. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
12. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
13. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
14. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
19. Situated in a particular spot or position.
23. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
24. Type genus of the Otariidae.
26. A Russian river.
28. A device (used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together v 1.
30. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
32. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
35. Similar to the color of fresh grass.
37. Be in accord.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605).
41. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
42. The seventh month of the civil year.
45. Lower in esteem.
48. Bubble shells.
51. Squash bugs.
55. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
56. The cry made by sheep.
57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
58. Of or relating to or toward the cheek.
61. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
63. Posing no difficulty.
64. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
65. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
67. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
68. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
69. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
72. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
73. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
77. The square of a body of any size of type.
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