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1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
4. Any of various grasses of moderate height which covered the undisturbed prairie in the United States.
12. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
16. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
19. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
20. Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words.
22. (music) A tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones.
24. A usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.).
26. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
30. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
31. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
32. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
36. Temporary living quarters.
40. Divisible by two.
44. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
45. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
47. Leave one's country of residence for a new one.
50. Examine by palpation for medical purposes.
52. (Christianity) Saved from the bondage of sin.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
56. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
60. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
63. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
64. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
65. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
67. Small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and North Africa that lacks a hind toe.
72. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
75. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
76. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
77. (zoology) Of or resembling a goose.
78. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
79. Being one more than nine.
80. A great raja.
81. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. A kiln for drying hops.
2. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
4. Of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor.
5. Used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function.
6. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
7. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
8. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
9. Squash bugs.
10. A state in north central United States.
11. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
12. The capital city of Vietnam.
13. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
14. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
21. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
23. A city in Indonesia.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood.
29. Type genus of the Caviidae.
33. A small wooded hollow.
34. An associate degree in nursing.
35. The highest level or degree attainable.
37. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
38. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
39. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
41. The seventh and last day of the week.
42. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
43. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
46. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
48. Rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and trap-leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle.
49. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
51. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
54. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
57. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
58. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
59. All the animal life in a particular region.
61. Make a vibrant sound, as of some birds.
62. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
66. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
68. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
69. Toward the mouth or oral region.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. Make an etching of.
73. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
74. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
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