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1. Fearless and daring.
5. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
11. Distant in either space or time.
15. American novelist (1909-1955).
16. Traveling on horseback.
17. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
18. Speaking a Slavic language.
19. Morally degraded.
21. Pertaining to or near the sun.
23. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
25. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
26. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
27. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
29. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
32. A member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.
35. The third day of the week.
36. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
39. A loose robe.
40. Goddess of fate.
42. A state in northwestern North America.
44. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
45. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
47. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
50. A form of address for a man.
51. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
52. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
54. A city in central southwestern Iran.
56. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.
64. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
69. A bronchodilator (trade names Elixophyllin and Slo-Bid and Theobid) used to treat asthma and bronchitis and emphysema.
72. Place side by side or in close proximity.
73. Distant but within sight.
74. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
77. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
78. Either extremity of something that has length.
79. United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951).
80. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A vigorous blow.
2. Look at with amorous intentions.
3. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
4. An inclination or desire.
5. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
6. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
7. (used of a horse or related animal) Born.
8. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
9. A shelter from danger or hardship.
10. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
11. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
12. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
13. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
14. A university in Connecticut.
20. The most widely spoken Bantu languages.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
28. The greatest possible degree of something.
30. A victory cheer.
31. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
33. A deficiency of red blood cells.
34. United States writer (1870-1902).
37. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
38. A member of the Dravidian people living in southern India.
41. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
43. Of or concerning Qatar.
46. 3rd largest island in the world.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
53. Being nine more than forty.
55. A belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic.
57. A city in northwestern Syria.
59. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
61. A unit of subjective loudness.
62. Tear or be torn violently.
63. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
65. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
66. A light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
67. Employed in accomplishing something.
68. Stalk of a moss capsule.
70. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
71. A master's degree in business.
75. Not out.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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