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1. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
4. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
12. Call upon in supplication.
15. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. (of exocrine glands) Producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. An industrial town in north central Alabama.
20. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
21. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. A conceited and self-centered person.
26. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
27. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
29. A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Of a pale purple color.
37. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
41. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
42. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
46. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
48. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
52. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
53. Relating to the Urdu language.
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. Be in contradiction with.
58. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
62. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.
66. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
67. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. A worker who installs and repairs electric wiring.
75. A slender double-reed instrument.
76. Being two more than fifty.
77. Exaggerate one's acting.
78. A Loloish language.
79. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
80. Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation.
81. A sudden numbing dread.
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1. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
2. A very large person.
3. English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940).
4. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. These words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.
7. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
8. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
9. Being three more than fifty.
10. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
11. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
14. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
19. Ragout of game in a rich sauce.
24. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
25. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
28. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
30. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
32. The cry made by sheep.
34. Of or relating to or associated with the moon.
35. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
36. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. Dwell (archaic).
39. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
40. Lower in esteem.
45. A Russian unit of length (1.067 km).
47. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. An act that exploits or victimizes someone.
50. Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745).
51. A collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults.
54. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
57. Without offspring.
60. A Loloish language.
61. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
63. A sudden short attack.
64. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
65. An equal exchange.
68. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
69. A cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids.
70. Heal or recover.
73. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
74. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
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