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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
5. Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone.
11. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
15. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
16. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
17. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
18. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
19. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
20. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.
21. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
23. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
28. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
30. An enclosed space.
33. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
34. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
37. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
39. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
41. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
43. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
44. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
48. Used of a single unit or thing.
49. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
51. Detailed instructions, as for a military operation.
53. The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled.
57. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
61. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
64. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
65. The female or generative principle.
67. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
68. To an excessive degree.
70. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
73. Encircle or bind.
76. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
78. At any time.
79. In an exposed manner.
81. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
82. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
83. A festival featuring African-American culture.
84. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. An enclosed armored military vehicle.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
4. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
5. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
6. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
7. 100 qindarka equal 1 lek.
8. A person who makes use of a thing.
9. Cause to be attached.
10. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
11. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
12. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
13. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
14. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
22. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
24. The cry made by sheep.
27. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
29. Not out.
31. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
32. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
35. The main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday.
36. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
42. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
45. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
46. Of people.
47. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
50. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
52. Offensively malodorous.
54. An artist of consummate skill.
55. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
56. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
59. Contrary to or forbidden by law.
62. Front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere.
63. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
66. African mahogany trees.
69. A sign of something about to happen.
71. Type genus of the Anatidae.
72. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
74. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
75. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
77. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
80. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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