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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A genus of Portunidae.
12. Characteristic of a mob.
15. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
16. A family of Pinaceae.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
20. A local computer network for communication between computers.
21. By bad luck.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
24. A region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells).
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. One million periods per second.
30. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
31. Become imbued.
35. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
38. Appear again.
41. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
43. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
44. A compact mass.
47. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
48. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
55. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
56. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
57. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
60. An informal term for a father.
62. In a flabby manner.
65. With no effort to conceal.
69. A motley assortment of things.
73. Of or pertaining to the Avesta (sacred text of Zoroastrianism).
75. A number that is added to another number (the augend).
76. The force of workers available.
77. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
80. In bed.
81. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
82. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
83. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
5. Being one more than seven.
6. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
7. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. The state of a serf.
12. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
13. Using speech rather than writing.
14. An unofficial association of people or groups.
22. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
25. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
26. 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.
28. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
32. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
33. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
34. A beckoning gesture.
36. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
37. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
40. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
42. The highest level or degree attainable.
45. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
46. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
49. Continuing at full strength or intensity.
51. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
54. Notable English cricketer (1882-1963).
58. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
59. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
61. A port city in southwestern Iran.
63. Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year.
64. An active and efficient cause.
66. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
67. (baseball) A hit that flies straight out from the batter.
68. An informal term for a father.
70. The capital of Western Samoa.
71. Noisy talk.
72. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
74. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
78. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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