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1. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
4. (British) The position of headmaster or headmistress.
12. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
16. A protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine).
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
19. The act of putting something in working order again.
20. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
22. The fifth month of the civil year.
24. An unforeseen obstacle.
26. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
27. Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
29. (British) A disparaging term for an appointee.
31. Complacently or inanely foolish.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. An informal term for a father.
42. Half the width of an em.
43. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
45. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
51. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
53. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
54. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
55. A Mid-Atlantic state.
59. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
64. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
66. An associate degree in nursing.
67. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
71. The products of human creativity.
72. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
75. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
76. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. Goddess of fertility.
80. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
81. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
82. An endorsement.
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1. A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. A pad of paper for keeping notes.
4. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
5. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
6. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
7. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
8. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
9. (formal) A person who announces important news.
10. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
11. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
12. A woman of refinement.
13. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
14. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
21. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
23. Obvious and dull.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
30. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
32. Wife of Balder.
36. Electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded.
37. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
38. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
39. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
40. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests.
41. A large number or amount.
44. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Again but in a new or different way.
50. 15th President of the United States (1791-1868).
52. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
56. Any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae.
57. God of the earth.
58. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
60. Candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers.
61. A theatrical performer.
62. English monk and scholar (672-735).
63. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
65. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
68. The dialect of Albanian spoken in southern Albania and in areas of Greece and Italy.
69. 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.
70. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
73. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
74. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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