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1. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
4. A woman lunatic.
12. Inquire about.
15. Towards the side away from the wind.
16. Coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A glove of armored leather.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
23. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
25. 3 to 30 kilohertz.
27. A Hindu prince or king in India.
35. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
39. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
40. Having the same or similar characteristics.
42. Being the only one.
43. A substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned.
45. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
46. Very dark black.
47. Lacking or showing a lack of due concern.
49. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. Someone who operates an aircraft.
53. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
57. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
58. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
60. An unforeseen obstacle.
64. Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances.
67. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
71. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
72. African antelopes.
75. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
76. A city in northern India.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
79. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
80. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
81. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
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1. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Not only so, but.
4. Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A doctor's degree in music.
7. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
10. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
11. Remaining after all deductions.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
24. A group of languages of the Hokan family in California.
26. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
28. Rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey.
29. The eleventh month of the civil year.
31. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
32. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
33. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
34. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
36. The capital and largest city of Dominica.
37. An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.
38. Small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates.
41. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
44. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
48. English pianist (1890-1965).
51. God of death.
54. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
55. Serving to set in motion.
56. Type genus of the Alcedinidae.
59. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
61. Relating to or accompanying birth.
62. Jordan's port.
63. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
65. Especially one side of a leaf.
66. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
68. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
69. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
70. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
73. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
74. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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