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1. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
4. Aroused or activated.
12. A unit of pressure.
15. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
16. The visual percept of a region.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
20. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.
21. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
22. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
23. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. A large evergreen tree of South Africa.
27. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
29. Any monosaccharide sugar containing three atoms of carbon per molecule.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
34. Soft creamy white cheese.
37. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
41. (of tempo) Slow adv.
43. A region of central Spain.
46. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
50. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
51. Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded.
54. The seed of the cereal grass.
55. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
56. A unit of resistance equal to one million ohms.
59. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
60. An African amulet.
64. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
68. Relating to or indicating a remainder.
70. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
73. A Hindu prince or king in India.
74. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
75. A person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career.
77. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
78. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
79. With sweetening added.
80. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Aroused to impatience or anger.
2. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
3. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
4. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
5. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
8. Upright in position or posture.
9. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.
10. Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in "professor emeritus".
11. English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures.
12. Lower in esteem.
13. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
14. Informal terms for a mother.
19. Instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging.
24. Possible to sell.
26. Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. Of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the N Malay Peninsula and parts of the W Malay Archipelago.
33. Used especially of fruits.
35. Brought back.
36. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
38. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
40. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
42. A notice of someone's death.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. The first month of the civil year.
48. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
49. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
52. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
53. (Canada) A sled pulled by dogs.
57. Someone who earn wages in return for their labor.
58. The vein in the center of a leaf.
61. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
62. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
63. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
67. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
69. At or constituting a border or edge.
71. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
72. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
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