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1. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
4. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
12. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
15. A rapid bustling commotion.
16. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
19. Willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed.
20. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
22. 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.
24. A Russian river.
25. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
26. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
28. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
37. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
41. Lift forcefully from beneath.
42. Of or denoting or relating to the Balkan countries or their inhabitants or the Balkan peninsula or the Balkan Mountains.
45. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
46. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
47. Of or relating to yoga.
51. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
52. Broken into sharp pieces.
53. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
56. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
58. God of love and erotic desire.
61. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
63. Being eight more than seventy.
67. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
71. Being one more than two.
72. Of or relating to the hands.
75. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
76. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
77. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
79. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
80. Related by blood.
81. A great raja.
82. Either extremity of something that has length.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.
3. Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood.
4. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
5. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
6. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
7. Similar or related in quality or character.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. The Judeo-Christian God.
13. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
14. An informal term for a father.
21. A trademark for a loosely woven cotton fabric that is used to make shirts and underwear.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
30. An inhabitant of Lappland.
32. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
34. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
35. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
36. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
38. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
39. Of or relating to alga.
40. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
43. The third month of the civil year.
44. Pale gray.
48. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
49. Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female.
50. A radioactive transuranic element.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. Jordan's port.
57. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
59. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
60. Tropical Asian starlings.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. Being one more than twelve.
65. A city of central China.
66. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
68. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
69. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. 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.
74. The month following March and preceding May.
78. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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