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1. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
4. Emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist.
12. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
15. (Babylonian) The sky god.
16. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
17. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
18. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
19. A transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission.
20. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
22. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
24. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
26. Someone who offers opposition.
28. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
29. A protective covering for a knife or sword.
32. Australian clover fern.
36. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.
40. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
41. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
44. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
45. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
48. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people.
50. The 6th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
52. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
53. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
56. A town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines.
59. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
60. A small book usually having a paper cover.
64. (India) Usually in combination.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
70. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
73. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. The force of workers available.
79. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
80. The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.
81. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. Belonging to some prior time.
3. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
4. An artist who creates sculptures.
5. The sound made by a gentle blow.
6. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
7. Dwell (archaic).
8. The mansion of the lord of the manor.
9. A kind of person.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. An Indian gum from the dhawa tree.
12. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
13. A person of Iranian descent.
14. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
21. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
23. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
25. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
27. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
30. English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742).
31. Italian fashion designer (1946-1997).
33. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
34. Very attentive or observant.
35. An informal term for a father.
37. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
38. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
39. 1 species.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
46. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. Humorously vulgar.
54. Old material that is slightly reworked and used again.
55. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
57. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
58. A long-playing phonograph record.
61. A French abbot.
62. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
63. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
65. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
66. In bed.
67. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
71. (Irish) The sea personified.
72. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
76. Before noon.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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