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1. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
5. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
17. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
18. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
19. An atom having a valence of one.
20. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
22. A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century.
23. Designated by a name or title.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
31. A short composition for a solo instrument.
32. English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964).
36. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
38. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
39. (often followed by `of') Not aware.
41. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
44. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
46. The first month of the year.
47. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating).
49. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
51. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
52. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. Cast again, in a different role.
70. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
72. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
73. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
74. A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file.
77. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
78. A scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture.
79. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
80. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
81. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
82. By bad luck.
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1. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. A genus of Ploceidae.
4. Order by virtue of superior authority.
5. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches.
6. Having a strong distinctive fragrance.
7. (British) Your grandmother.
8. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
9. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. Founder of Buddhism.
12. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
13. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
14. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
21. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
26. Someone who plays a bugle.
27. French painter who developed pointilism (1859-1891).
30. (prefix) Across or crossing or on the opposite side.
33. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
34. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
35. A general conscious awareness.
37. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
40. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
42. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
43. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
45. On or toward the lee.
48. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
56. Wild geese.
58. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
59. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
61. Jordan's port.
62. Lower in esteem.
64. Of or relating to alga.
65. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
66. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
68. The act of scanning.
69. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
71. Morally bad or wrong.
75. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
76. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
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