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1. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
4. A decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping.
12. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
15. (Irish) The sea personified.
16. Maintains a rabbit warren.
17. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
18. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
23. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
25. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
27. Type genus of the Caviidae.
28. (informal) Exceptionally good.
30. Squash bugs.
32. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
36. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
46. Fiddler crabs.
48. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
49. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
51. A city in northern India.
53. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
54. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
56. (in Scotland) A child.
58. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
60. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
69. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
71. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
72. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
73. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
76. (voodooism) A spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body.
77. A light touch or stroke.
78. The outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue.
80. A sign of something about to happen.
81. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
82. A meeting for boat races.
83. Female equine animal.
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1. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
2. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
3. Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture.
4. Form metals with a swage.
5. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
6. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
7. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
10. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
19. A long narrow natural elevation or striation.
24. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
31. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
33. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
34. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
35. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
37. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
40. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
41. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
42. The sixth month of the civil year.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
47. A metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century.
50. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
52. Possessing material wealth.
55. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
59. Free from dirt or impurities.
61. English monk and scholar (672-735).
63. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
65. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
67. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
68. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
70. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
74. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
75. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
79. Informal terms for a mother.
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