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1. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches.
5. Wool of the alpaca.
11. In bed.
15. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
16. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
17. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
18. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
19. The brightest star in Cygnus.
20. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
27. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
31. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
38. The capital of Western Samoa.
43. Forming viscous or glutinous threads.
44. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
45. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
46. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
48. 1/10 gram.
50. Greek mythology.
51. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
56. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
58. A master's degree in business.
63. A state in northwestern North America.
67. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
69. Bar temporarily.
71. A branch of the Tai languages.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
77. The state of being actual or real.
79. A light touch or stroke.
80. How long something has existed.
81. A substance that abrades or wears down.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
5. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
6. An island of central Hawaii.
7. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
8. A French abbot.
9. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
10. A port city in southwestern Iran.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
13. English essayist (1775-1834).
14. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. Lessen the intensity of.
28. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
29. The cry made by sheep.
30. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
32. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
33. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504).
34. An unforeseen obstacle.
35. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
36. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
37. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
39. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
41. A region whose eastern part is Bangladesh and western part is included in India.
42. An inhabitant of Lappland.
47. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
49. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
52. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
53. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
54. The stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon.
55. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
59. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
60. Serving as or forming a base.
61. Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
62. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
64. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Jordan's port.
68. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
70. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
75. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
78. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
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