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1. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
5. Existing as or having characteristics of a gas.
12. The residue that remains when something is burned.
15. Any competition.
16. Make sour or more sour.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
20. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
24. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
25. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
27. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
29. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
31. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
34. Lens for correcting defective vision in one eye.
39. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
43. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
44. Liquid excretory product.
45. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
46. A young woman making her debut into society.
47. Any organic compound containing two amino groups.
49. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
51. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
52. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
53. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
56. A B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction.
58. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
59. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
61. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
63. A church associated with a monastery or convent.
66. An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
68. In ceremonial attire and paraphernalia.
72. Go into retirement.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
76. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
77. Make larger.
79. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
80. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
81. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
82. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
2. Any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes.
3. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
4. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
5. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. A stringed instrument of India.
8. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
9. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
10. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
11. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. The act of scanning.
14. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
19. A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects.
26. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
28. Aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery.
30. Any cognitive content held as true.
32. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
33. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
35. The capital and largest city of Japan.
36. Situated at an apex.
37. 100 seniti equal 1 pa'anga.
38. (of the more skilled contestants) Selectively arranged in the draw for position a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds.
40. A town in southwestern Idaho.
41. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
50. Hear or try a court case anew.
54. Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.
55. Widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers.
57. Being or passing over or across the sea.
60. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
62. French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of romanticism (1866-1925).
64. (in Scotland) A child.
65. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
67. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
69. Noisy talk.
70. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
71. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
73. Any high mountain.
74. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
78. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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