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1. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
5. To the degree or extent.
12. The month following August and preceding October.
15. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
16. A bowl-shaped drinking vessel.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
19. A person who is abnormally small.
20. Goddess of fate.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
24. Subject to popular election.
26. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
28. Common house and field crickets.
29. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
32. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
36. A vigorous blow.
38. A large number or amount.
42. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
43. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
45. Cut off from a whole.
46. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. Of a pale purple color.
50. Of inferior or mixed breed.
51. Being nine more than forty.
53. Wood of a pecan tree.
55. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
56. A long-playing phonograph record.
58. River in eastern Asia.
59. The emotion of hate.
63. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
65. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
67. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
71. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
74. In bed.
77. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
78. Offering fun and gaiety.
79. 1 species.
80. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
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1. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
2. Type genus of the Amiidae.
3. 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.
4. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
5. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
6. A state in New England.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
9. Superior to the average.
10. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
11. Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ.
12. Fried quickly in a little fat.
13. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
14. A genus of Ploceidae.
23. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
25. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
27. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.
30. An authoritative person who divines the future.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
35. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
37. United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931).
39. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
40. The state of being unsure of something.
41. A chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and nontropical forms and in both children and adults.
44. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
49. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
52. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
54. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
57. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
60. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
61. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
62. Punished by the imposition of a penalty.
64. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
66. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
68. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
69. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
70. A primeval personification of air and breath.
72. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
73. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
75. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
76. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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