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1. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
11. In or of the present month.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. The front limb of a quadruped.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. United States novelist.
20. A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea.
21. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
22. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
25. Robbery on the high seas.
27. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
30. Genus of North American spring wildflowers.
32. In bed.
35. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
40. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
42. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
43. Of great mass.
44. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
46. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
47. 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.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. Type genus of the Ranidae.
53. Wool of the alpaca.
58. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
59. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
61. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
63. Capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind.
66. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
70. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
71. Treated with oil.
74. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
75. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
76. Resembling a rib.
78. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
79. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
80. English Shakespearean actor also noted for appearances in films (1904-2000).
81. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
2. The content of cognition.
3. Any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any.
4. Regional and archaic.
5. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (born in 1935).
8. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
12. Of or in or relating to the nose.
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
19. Of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive.
23. Used especially of plants.
24. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
26. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A region whose eastern part is Bangladesh and western part is included in India.
31. Well matched.
33. A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera.
34. Old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576).
37. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
39. New Zealand conifer.
41. Being one more than one.
45. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
48. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
52. A city and port in northern Jutland.
54. A public square with room for pedestrians.
55. (Judaism) A chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh.
56. Compel or impose.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
62. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
64. Being three more than fifty.
65. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. A French abbot.
69. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
72. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
73. The site of an archeological exploration.
77. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
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