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1. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
5. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
12. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
15. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
16. Given to avoiding association with others.
17. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
18. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
20. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
21. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
22. Make uniform.
24. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
26. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
28. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Gradually narrowed toward a point.
34. Filled with fear or apprehension.
37. Rounded like an egg.
39. The sound like water splashing.
42. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.
47. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
48. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
49. The highest level or degree attainable.
51. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
55. A town in central Belgium.
57. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
61. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
62. A unit of pressure.
63. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
65. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
69. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
73. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
74. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
78. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
79. Engage or hire for work.
80. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
83. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
84. A festival featuring African-American culture.
85. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
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1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
2. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
3. Balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine.
4. A long slender cigar.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
6. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
8. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
9. Make reference to.
10. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
11. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. Jordan's port.
14. Wood of a sumac.
19. The sixth month of the civil year.
23. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
25. Perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America.
27. Range of what one can know or understand.
29. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
32. Admit openly and bluntly.
33. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
35. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
36. English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures.
38. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
40. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
41. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
43. The female or generative principle.
44. God of the earth.
45. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
46. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829).
56. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
58. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. A bachelor's degree in theology.
64. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
66. Set down according to a plan.
67. A Spanish river.
68. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
70. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
71. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
72. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
77. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
81. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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