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1. A human female who does housework.
5. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
11. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
15. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
16. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
17. Advanced in years.
18. Jordan's port.
20. Fiddler crabs.
21. Forming or set at an angle.
23. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
24. The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).
26. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
35. Not only so, but.
37. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. 10 grams.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. Wearing or provided with clothing.
49. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
51. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
53. Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943).
55. A fibrous amphibole.
58. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
59. A tumor of bone tissue.
61. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
65. Female equine animal.
67. An island in the Mediterranean.
68. English essayist (1775-1834).
69. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
71. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
73. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
74. The month following February and preceding April.
77. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
78. Make amends for.
79. German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859).
80. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
2. A message that seems to convey no meaning.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
5. Being nine more than ninety.
6. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
7. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. A state in midwestern United States.
10. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
11. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
12. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
13. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
14. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
19. In bed.
22. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
25. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. Make effective from an earlier date.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. Stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug.
32. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
33. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
34. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
36. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
47. Of or relating to or formed by trees.
48. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913).
50. Fallow deer.
52. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
54. A salt or ester of maleic acid.
56. A female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions.
57. (used especially of meats and fish) Dried and cured in wood smoke.
60. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
62. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
63. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
64. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
66. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
70. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
72. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
75. 16 ounces.
76. A state in northwestern North America.
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