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1. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
5. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
16. Related by marriage.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
20. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
22. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
24. In operation or operational.
26. Being one more than two.
27. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
29. An accountant certified by the state.
30. A white trivalent metallic element.
32. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
35. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
39. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
42. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
44. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
45. Breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy gray coat developed in Norway for hunting elk.
48. Conforming to truth.
49. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
52. Made clean.
54. City in central Iran.
55. The compass point midway between north and west.
56. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
57. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
58. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
63. The third month of the civil year.
70. Not only so, but.
71. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
74. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
75. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
76. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
77. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
78. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
79. Being ten more than seventy.
80. Type genus of the Anatidae.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Expel, as of gases and odors.
3. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
4. Lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head.
5. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
6. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
7. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
8. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
9. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
10. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
11. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
23. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
25. A nation in northern North America.
28. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
31. An angular shape made by folding.
34. Colloquial British abbreviation.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. A person who habitually pretends to be something he is not.
38. Of or at or relating to an anode.
40. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. Again but in a new or different way.
46. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
47. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
50. A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. A member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr peninsula in Siberia.
59. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
60. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
61. A genus of Indriidae.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. Being here now.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
66. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
67. Declare untrue.
68. The muscular back part of the shank.
69. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
72. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
73. A small amount (especially of a drink).
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