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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Something transitory.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Behavior or language bordering on indelicacy.
20. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
25. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
27. Perfume esp. with a censer.
29. A populous province in northeastern China.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. Supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.
38. Voluntarily absent from home or country.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
42. Paint with red lead or vermilion.
44. Unknown god.
46. Waterproofed canvas.
47. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
50. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
51. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
52. Half the width of an em.
53. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
54. The force of workers available.
57. Slightly open.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. Cause to vibrate in a definite pattern.
64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
66. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
67. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
70. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
73. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
74. Italian film actress (born in 1934).
76. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
77. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
79. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
80. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
81. In a free manner.
82. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
5. Imagined as in a play.
6. Made or produced in the home or by yourself.
7. An opening that permits escape or release.
8. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
9. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
10. Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status.
11. An associate degree in applied science.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
24. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
26. Small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump.
28. An enclosed space.
30. Any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical.
31. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Take away the weapons from.
36. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
37. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
40. Jordan's port.
43. A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court.
45. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
48. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
49. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
55. Something that remunerates.
56. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. A motley assortment of things.
62. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
63. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
65. English monk and scholar (672-735).
68. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
69. A small wooded hollow.
71. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. An organization of military land forces.
75. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
78. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
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