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1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
4. Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts.
12. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
15. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
16. Too old to be useful.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. Perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. (India) Flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle.
23. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
25. Informal terms for a meal.
27. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
29. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
32. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen.
36. Elegant and stylish.
38. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
40. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
42. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
45. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
50. Small gnawing animals.
52. Brake consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle.
54. An honorary degree in science.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
58. Being nothing more than specified.
61. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
63. The act of scanning.
67. Lower in esteem.
71. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
73. Greek mythology.
74. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
75. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
77. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
78. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
79. A great raja.
80. A transuranic element.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
3. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
4. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
5. Of a leaf shape.
6. Pertaining to or near the sun.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
9. Armor plate that protects the chest.
10. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
11. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
22. Type genus of the Percidae.
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
31. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
33. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
34. Someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act.
35. A stupid mistake.
37. A milkshake made with malt powder.
39. Call forth.
41. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
47. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
51. Very dark black.
53. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
57. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
59. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
60. Tropical Asian starlings.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
65. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
66. Type genus of the Ranidae.
68. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
69. Witnessed at first hand.
70. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
72. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
76. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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