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1. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
4. The academic world.
11. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
16. The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capitol of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia.
17. An onerous or difficult concern.
18. Assign the wrong date to.
20. A state in midwestern United States.
22. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
23. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
25. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
26. Great coolness and composure under strain.
30. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
32. A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger.
35. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
37. An affirmative.
38. A Russian river.
39. 16 ounces.
40. A government tax on imports or exports.
44. The visible part of a television transmission.
46. Liquid excretory product.
47. A size of paper used especially in Britain.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
54. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
56. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element.
60. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
61. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
62. The sixth month of the civil year.
63. English playwright (1575-1634).
65. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
67. Highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era.
70. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
73. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
74. A flexible container with a single opening.
75. The negative of the opposition.
77. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. Capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.).
80. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet.
2. Type genus of the Amiidae.
3. A region in central Italy.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A positively charged atom.
6. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. English essayist (1775-1834).
9. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. A person of Polish descent.
12. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
13. A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture).
14. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
19. Move away from a place into another direction.
21. Receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart.
24. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
27. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
28. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
29. Step on it.
31. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
33. One of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind.
34. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
36. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
41. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
42. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
43. All the plant life in a particular region.
45. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
48. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
49. A covered cistern.
52. An extreme state of adversity.
55. The state of being a man.
57. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
58. A small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage.
59. An investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods.
64. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
66. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
68. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
69. Young sheep.
71. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
72. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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