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1. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
5. The capital of the state of Maine.
12. A master's degree in business.
15. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
16. (football) The person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. (ecology) The process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.
20. A loud harsh or strident noise.
21. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. Difficult or labored respiration.
24. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
26. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
28. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
29. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
32. A genus of Pyralidae.
34. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
38. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
41. (of winds) Coming from the sea toward the land.
43. Having winglike extensions.
44. An island in the Persian Gulf.
45. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A person who seeds clouds.
49. An associate degree in nursing.
52. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
53. An Asian country under the control of China.
57. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
60. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
66. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
70. Treated with contempt.
71. A member of a Turkic people of NE Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin).
74. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
75. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
76. Providing enjoyment.
78. Ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc.
79. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
80. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
81. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
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1. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
2. Full of zest or vigor.
3. In the Roman calendar.
4. Lower someone's spirits.
5. A useful or valuable quality.
6. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
7. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
8. Used of high or hilly country.
9. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
10. A three-tone Chadic language.
11. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
12. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
13. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
14. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
19. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
23. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. A card game similar to ecarte.
27. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
30. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
31. By bad luck.
33. Squash bugs.
35. A large number or amount.
36. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
37. A kind of literary or artistic work.
39. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
40. Any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers.
42. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A state in New England.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. A histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux.
55. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
56. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
58. (of stone especially) Not given a finished form by or as if by hewing.
61. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard).
62. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
63. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
64. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
65. Typical geese.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
69. A Dravidian language spoken in southeast India.
72. The residue that remains when something is burned.
73. Related by blood.
77. Informal terms for a mother.
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