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1. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
4. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit.
12. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
15. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
16. Being or relating to or like a chimera.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. Goddess of the heavens and married love.
20. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
21. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
22. (physics) Material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
28. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
31. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
33. Re-establish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.
35. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
37. Before noon.
39. (usually in the plural) Pants for casual wear.
42. A castrated tomcat.
46. The cry made by sheep.
48. A state in New England.
49. An embarrassing mistake.
51. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
54. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
55. An abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity or excitability.
57. Either of two posts that bound a gate.
59. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
60. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
61. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. The brightest star in Virgo.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. A person who designs and writes and tests computer programs.
75. Being one more than nine.
76. Epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial ferns of tropical Old World.
78. A doctor's degree in education.
79. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
80. A republic in southwestern Asia.
81. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
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1. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
2. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
3. American inventor.
4. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. A Loloish language.
7. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
8. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
9. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
10. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
11. English essayist (1775-1834).
12. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
13. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
14. Ask for and get free.
19. (Jewish folklore) An artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means.
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. Rapid and indistinct speech.
30. A large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. Tropical African herbs.
36. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
38. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
40. (Russian Jewish) Baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese.
41. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
43. A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.
44. Large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber.
45. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. The ending of a series or sequence.
52. A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
53. A genus of Picidae.
56. United States comedian.
58. An analgesic for mild pain.
63. In bed.
64. An unofficial association of people or groups.
65. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
66. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
67. (Greek mythology) God of love.
68. No longer in your possession or control.
70. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
71. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
73. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
77. A state in midwestern United States.
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