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1. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
4. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
12. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Causing alarm or fear.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A Hindu prince or king in India.
20. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
21. (British) A local tax on property (usually used in the plural).
23. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
25. Any plant of the genus Erica.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. Two performers or singers who perform together.
30. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
32. The bill in a restaurant.
33. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
34. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
38. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
41. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
42. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
43. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
47. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
48. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
51. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
53. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
54. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
55. Social status or position conferred by a system based on class.
57. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
64. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
71. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
72. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
76. (informal) Of the highest quality.
77. In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals.
78. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
79. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
80. A mathematician specializing in geometry.
81. Towards the side away from the wind.
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1. A genus of Mustelidae.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
7. Sea catfishes.
8. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
9. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913).
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
12. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Flat tableland with steep edges.
19. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
22. Of or relating to or involving an area.
24. Tag the base runner to get him out.
27. Covered or wrapped with a bandage.
29. An analgesic for mild pain.
31. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
35. A member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.
36. Jordan's port.
37. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
39. Status with respect to the relations between people or groups.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
45. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Relating to or accompanying birth.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. Done or occurring in a brief period of time.
56. Store in a silo, as of fodder.
59. One or more recordings issued together.
60. Make less active or intense.
62. A telegram sent abroad.
63. Lower in esteem.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. In bed.
67. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
68. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
70. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
73. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
74. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
75. The sign language used in the United States.
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