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1. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
5. The father of your father or mother.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
15. Have confidence or faith in.
16. (Great Britain) A university degree with honors.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
19. An ACE inhibiting drug (trade names Prinivil or Zestril) administered as an antihypertensive and after heart attacks.
20. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
21. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
23. Heal or recover.
25. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
28. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
30. A Mid-Atlantic state.
32. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
33. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
36. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
39. In bed.
41. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
44. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Wood of a pecan tree.
49. Any high mountain.
50. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
53. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
54. Enthusiastic approval.
56. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
59. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
60. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
63. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
67. Identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal.
68. Dyed with henna.
71. (British) The dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally).
72. Prince's plume.
75. A master's degree in business.
76. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
77. Like or characteristic of a mirrored image.
78. A decree that prohibits something.
79. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
80. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
2. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
3. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
4. A course of academic studies.
5. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
6. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
7. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
8. A short personal letter.
9. Of or relating to the dura mater.
10. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
11. The sign language used in the United States.
12. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
13. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
14. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
22. Type genus of the Anatidae.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
29. 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.
31. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
34. A boy or man.
35. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
37. The muscular back part of the shank.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A person forced to flee from home or country.
43. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
45. The content of cognition.
48. In or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line.
51. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
52. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives.
55. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
57. French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397).
58. The capital of Turkey.
61. A frequently visited place.
62. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
64. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
70. A quantity of no importance.
73. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
74. A toilet in England.
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