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1. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. Any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill.
12. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. Pasta in the form of slender tubes.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. Old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576).
20. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. An account describing incidents or events.
26. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
29. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience.
38. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
41. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
42. Towards the shore from the water.
43. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
45. Of the color of rust.
46. A branch of the Tai languages.
47. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. Draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight.
56. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
58. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
59. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
61. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
63. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524).
70. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
71. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
73. An unforeseen obstacle.
74. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. Long and light rowing boat.
79. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
80. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
81. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. A lake in northwestern Russia.
4. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
5. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
6. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
7. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
8. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
9. The longest division of geological time.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
12. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
13. A slender double-reed instrument.
14. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
21. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
23. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
25. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
27. A state in midwestern United States.
28. The probability of a specified outcome.
30. (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
32. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
33. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
35. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
36. Plain-woven cotton fabric.
37. The basic unit of money in Macao.
39. Ibis-headed moon deity.
40. English monk and scholar (672-735).
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
48. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
51. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
52. Refresh one's memory.
53. A barn for cows.
54. A quantity of no importance.
55. United States playwright (1906-1963).
57. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
60. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
62. (medicine) Chilly.
64. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
65. Noisy talk.
66. On or toward the lee.
67. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
68. Characteristic of false pride.
69. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
72. The sixth day of the week.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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