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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
11. A bachelor's degree in music.
15. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
16. The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
17. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
18. A rotating power drill powered by an electric motor.
20. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
21. Belonging to some prior time.
22. The process of seeping.
24. Hungarian breed of large powerful shaggy-coated white dog.
26. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
28. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
29. (sports) Someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
32. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
37. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
41. Belonging to or governing a diocese n.
46. Organized opposition to authority.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
49. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
51. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
53. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
55. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
63. One species.
66. Someone whose employment involves carrying something.
69. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
70. A coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin.
73. Jordan's port.
74. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
75. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
77. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
78. Inquire about.
79. A senior clergyman.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The probability of a specified outcome.
2. Free of extraneous elements of any kind.
3. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
6. Herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
7. A master's degree in business.
8. (of upper front teeth) Projecting outward.
9. A cravat with wide square ends.
10. A genus of Paridae.
11. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
12. A family of languages spoken by people scattered throughout central India.
13. Beyond what is natural.
14. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
19. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
27. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
30. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
31. Appearing earlier in the same text.
34. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
35. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
38. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
39. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
40. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
42. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
43. English essayist (1775-1834).
44. A thrusting blow with a knife.
45. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
50. Get together.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. The soft brown fur of the beaver.
57. United States chemist (1839-1903).
58. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
60. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
64. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
65. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
67. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
68. A state in northwestern North America.
71. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
72. (Irish) The sea personified.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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