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1. Especially one side of a leaf.
5. A small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame.
12. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
15. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
16. A soft suede leather formerly from the sheep of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
20. Arousing or provoking laughter.
21. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. At full speed.
24. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
26. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
28. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
30. A refrigerator for cooling liquids.
32. Outer membrane covering an axon.
36. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
39. Unlawfully distilled Irish whiskey.
40. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
44. Have confidence or faith in.
46. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
47. A master's degree in theology.
48. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
50. Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves.
54. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
57. A violent denunciation.
58. Provide what is desired or needed, esp. support, food or sustenance.
60. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
66. Related to or characteristic of or written in Amharic.
70. Affectedly dainty or refined.
72. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
75. Jordan's port.
76. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
77. Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.
79. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
80. Again but in a new or different way.
81. A festival featuring African-American culture.
82. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
3. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
4. The act of detecting something.
5. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
6. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
7. Any competition.
8. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
9. To bring or combine together or with something else.
10. Being two more than fifty.
11. Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells.
12. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
13. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
14. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
19. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
27. A son who has the same first name as his father.
29. Someone who wastes time.
31. An artificial language.
33. Mint plants.
34. A way of doing something, esp. a systematic one.
35. Personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation.
37. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
38. Black tropical American cuckoo.
41. An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.
42. (informal) Exceptionally good.
43. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
45. A substance derived from amygdalin.
49. A three-tone Chadic language.
51. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
52. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
53. A harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog).
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
59. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
61. An ancient port city in southwestern Spain.
64. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
65. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
67. Avatar of Vishnu.
68. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
69. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
71. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
73. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
74. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
78. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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