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1. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
4. Having no known beginning and presumably no end.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Imperfect development.
17. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
18. Something referred to.
20. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
22. A bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects.
23. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
24. A thick sweet sticky liquid.
27. The highest level or degree attainable.
30. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
31. An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
35. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
36. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
38. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
39. A flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.
43. Large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks.
45. The 5th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
48. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
49. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
50. Proboscis worms.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. An honorary degree in science.
58. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
59. A quantity of no importance.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
65. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
70. Give over.
72. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
73. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
77. The month following February and preceding April.
78. Chief port of Yemen.
79. Apple grown chiefly in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
80. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. (British slang) Cafe.
4. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
5. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
6. A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court.
7. Of or relating to the enteron.
8. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
9. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
10. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
11. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. Any loose flowing garment.
14. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
19. A former Turkish term of respect.
21. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
25. 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.
26. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
28. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
29. An unwholesome atmosphere.
32. The capital of Morocco.
33. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
34. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
37. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
40. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
41. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
42. Store in a silo, as of fodder.
44. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
46. In an innate manner.
51. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
53. Wish harm upon.
55. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
60. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
62. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
64. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
66. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
67. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
69. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
71. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
75. A heavy precious metallic element.
76. Half the width of an em.
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