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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. A close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace.
11. Singing jazz.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. Black grouse.
17. God of love and erotic desire.
18. The address where a person lives.
20. A blemish made by dirt.
21. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
22. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
28. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing.
34. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
35. The British system of withholding tax.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A long-playing phonograph record.
43. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
44. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
46. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
49. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
51. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
52. Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills.
55. A young woman.
56. A fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean.
59. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
60. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
61. A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.
63. South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers.
65. Genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers.
68. A region whose eastern part is Bangladesh and western part is included in India.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
78. Dependent on chance.
79. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
80. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
81. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
82. A branch of the Tai languages.
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1. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
2. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
3. A slipper that is soft and wool (for babies).
4. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
5. A Mid-Atlantic state.
6. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
7. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
8. Rum cut with water.
9. Of or relating to the corpus luteum.
10. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
11. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
12. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
24. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
27. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
30. Someone who rejects the established culture.
31. Covered with beads of liquid.
32. An advocate of Maoism.
33. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
36. A state in northwestern North America.
37. Not only so, but.
39. The cry made by sheep.
40. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
42. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
45. Regret strongly.
47. The sign language used in the United States.
48. European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers.
50. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
53. Someone who provides food and service (as for a party).
54. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
57. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
58. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
62. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
64. A republic in eastern Africa.
66. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
67. An informal term for a father.
69. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. Made of or resembling lace.
74. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
75. A former French coin of low denomination.
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