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1. South African term for `boss'.
5. Susceptible to being led or directed.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
15. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
16. Dyed with henna.
17. A doctor's degree in education.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. Uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting.
20. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
21. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
23. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
25. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
26. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
28. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
31. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
33. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
36. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
42. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
44. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
46. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
47. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
48. The father of your father or mother.
50. A form of address for a man.
52. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
53. Fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies.
55. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
56. The male reproductive organ of a flower.
59. Greek mythology.
61. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
62. A New England state.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
68. The superior of a group of nuns.
73. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
74. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
77. A proportion multiplied by 100.
78. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
82. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
83. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
84. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
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1. Derive or receive pleasure from.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
4. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
5. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
6. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
7. The innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel).
8. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
9. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
10. Towards the side away from the wind.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
13. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
14. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
22. A slight amount or degree of difference.
24. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
27. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
29. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
30. Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities.
32. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
34. Strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco.
35. Something of small importance.
37. A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women.
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
41. A descendent or heir.
43. In the Roman calendar.
45. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
49. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
51. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
54. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
60. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
63. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
65. Toward the mouth or oral region.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
67. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
71. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
72. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
75. The last (12th) month of the year.
76. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
80. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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