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1. Relating to the Urdu language.
5. The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations.
12. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
15. Hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton.
16. An industrial town in north central Alabama.
17. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
18. Tangled in knots or snarls.
20. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
22. A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep.
24. Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
25. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
26. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
28. Cut or impressed into a surface.
35. A particular civilization at a particular stage.
37. An informal term for a father.
40. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
41. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
42. The side or slope of a hill.
44. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.
46. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
51. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
53. God of wealth and love.
55. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. In bed.
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
63. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
64. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
67. Type and genus of the Isoetaceae and sole extant genus of the order Isoetales.
72. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
74. The face of a timepiece.
77. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
78. A reason for wanting something done.
79. French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687).
80. A Nilotic language.
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1. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
2. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
3. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
4. A city in the central Netherlands.
5. American novelist (1909-1955).
6. A boy or man.
7. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
9. A bachelor's degree in religion.
10. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
11. A negatively charged atom.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
13. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
14. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
19. A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college.
21. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. The basic unit of money in China.
29. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
30. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
31. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
32. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
33. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
34. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
36. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
38. Loose or flaccid body fat.
39. A state of northeastern India.
43. 16 ounces.
45. Capable of being scaled.
47. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
52. The supreme commander of a fleet.
54. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
60. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
62. A squeaking sound.
65. Type genus of the Amiidae.
66. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
68. Belonging to some prior time.
69. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier.
70. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
71. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
73. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
75. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
76. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
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