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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A great sacrifice.
12. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
15. A doctor's degree in education.
16. Of or relating to an oracle.
17. An affirmative.
18. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
19. Sauce for pasta.
20. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
21. Jordan's port.
23. Used of a single unit or thing.
24. Forming or set at an angle.
26. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
29. A football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal.
32. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. By bad luck.
40. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
43. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
44. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
49. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
50. A feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments.
51. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
54. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
55. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
57. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. The Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people.
63. Any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits.
66. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
67. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
71. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
72. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. A cgs unit of work or energy.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. Enlarged prostate.
79. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
80. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
81. The fatty flesh of eel.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. Respectful deference.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A glancing rebound.
7. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
8. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
9. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
10. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
11. Wild geese.
12. City in Sudan.
13. (Judaism) The ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover.
14. A can for storing tea.
22. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
25. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
27. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
28. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
30. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
31. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
38. (geology) Before the appearance of life.
39. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
41. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
42. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
45. Short and fat.
46. Being one more than one.
47. 10 grams.
48. A bachelor's degree in science.
52. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
53. Not only so, but.
56. Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace.
59. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
60. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
62. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
64. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
65. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
68. A French abbot.
69. The back side of the neck.
70. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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