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1. Inquire about.
4. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
12. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
15. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
16. A railcar where passengers ride.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
19. Formally supported especially by public statement.
20. An associate degree in applied science.
21. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
23. An electrically charged particle.
24. (of tempo) Moderately slow n.
26. Earlier in time.
28. A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful.
29. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
31. An enclosed space.
35. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
37. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
39. Any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling.
41. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
44. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
45. The emotion of hate.
46. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. An Australian state on the island of Tasmania.
53. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
57. A yearning for something or to do something.
58. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
60. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
62. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
70. English monk and scholar (672-735).
73. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
74. Among the largest bony fish.
75. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
77. A notable achievement.
78. The top edge of a vessel.
79. Being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn.
80. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. In bed.
2. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
6. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
7. Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen.
8. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
9. Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574).
10. Imperfect development.
11. A woman's sleeveless undergarment.
12. (Irish) Goddess.
13. Singing jazz.
14. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
22. Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.
25. Inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.
27. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
30. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. The soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal.
34. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
36. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
38. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
40. Any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers.
42. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
43. Divulge information or secrets.
47. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
48. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
50. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
52. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
54. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
55. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
61. A genus of Ploceidae.
63. (Roman mythology) God of love.
64. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
65. Very light colored.
66. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
68. A quantity of no importance.
71. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
72. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
76. A public promotion of some product or service.
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