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1. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
4. Any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes.
12. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
15. The month following February and preceding April.
16. Tire excessively.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. A person who commits larceny.
20. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
21. A desert in southern Israel.
23. Informal terms.
25. The Italian region on the island of Sardinia.
28. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
31. Lacking or showing a lack of due concern.
36. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
37. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
38. Before noon.
40. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
41. Open to change.
43. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
45. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
46. A master's degree in business.
48. Noisy talk.
49. A master's degree in theology.
50. Pale beer with strong flavor of hops.
53. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
55. A white trivalent metallic element.
56. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
57. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
63. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
67. A man who serves as a sailor.
69. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
70. Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).
71. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
74. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
75. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
76. Highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide.
79. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
80. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
81. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. A feeling of intense anger.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922).
5. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
6. King of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC).
7. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
8. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
9. Any of several low-growing pines of western North America.
10. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
11. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
12. On or toward the lee.
13. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
14. Singing jazz.
22. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
24. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
26. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
30. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
32. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
33. Repeated too often.
34. United States writer of stories and plays (1894-1946).
35. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
39. By chance.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Void of thought or knowledge.
47. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
51. A line that forms the length of an arrow pointer.
52. A town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island west of Vancouver.
54. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
58. Russian mathematician (1856-1922).
59. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. Large American feline resembling a lion.
61. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
62. Causing fear or dread or terror.
64. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
68. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
72. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
73. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
77. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
78. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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