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1. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
4. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae.
12. A master's degree in theology.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
17. Step on it.
18. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
19. French composer (1818-1893).
20. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
22. Incompletely or imperfectly shaped.
25. Used of a single unit or thing.
26. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
29. The mother of Jesus.
30. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
33. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
35. A line made of twisted fibers or threads.
37. Not fed.
41. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
48. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
51. Titmice and chickadees.
53. Relating to or characteristic of Malawi or its people or culture.
55. The brightest star in Virgo.
56. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
58. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
59. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
60. The sign language used in the United States.
61. Cause to lose one's nerve.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
68. Offering fun and gaiety.
69. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
71. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
76. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
77. Fixed or established especially by order or command.
79. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
80. The cry made by sheep.
81. Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An Eskimo hut.
2. The act of scanning.
3. United States baseball player (born in 1931).
4. An atom or molecule or radical or ion that forms a complex around a central atom.
5. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
6. A slight indication.
7. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
9. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
10. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
11. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
12. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
13. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
14. Composed of or covered with relatively large particles.
21. All of the inhabitants of the earth.
23. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
24. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
27. A deep bow.
28. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
31. Leather covering the toe of a boot or shoe and reinforcing or decorating it.
32. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
34. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
39. English essayist (1775-1834).
40. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
42. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
44. Perennial plants resembling yucca.
47. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
49. Someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along.
52. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
54. A mixer incorporating a coil of wires.
57. Of or relating to a nail or claw or hoof.
62. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. A beautiful and graceful girl.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
72. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
73. (of music or art) New and of general appeal (especially among young people).
74. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
75. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
78. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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