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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
5. Done by design.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
16. Small genus of dwarf orchids.
17. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
18. A deep bow.
20. Small branch or division of a branch.
21. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
22. Type genus of the Elopidae.
23. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
25. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
28. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
30. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
32. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
33. Matters of personal concern.
37. (Hindu mythology) The most important of the princes in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God.
40. Of a pale purple color.
41. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
42. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
44. Type genus of the Majidae.
45. The branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. The month following February and preceding April.
51. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
52. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
55. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
58. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
59. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
62. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
64. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
68. A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.
69. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
71. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
72. A sharply directional antenna.
76. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
77. Castrate, used with animals.
78. A centare is 1/100th of an are.
79. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
80. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
81. (music) Brought to correct pitch.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A white powder with a pleasant taste and odor.
4. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
5. The rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing).
6. Being nine more than forty.
7. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
8. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504).
9. Establish something as being earlier relative to something else.
10. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
11. A human limb.
12. Largest known toad species.
13. Young sheep.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
24. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
26. Of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain.
27. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
29. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
31. God of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity.
34. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
35. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
36. So scary as to cause chills and shudders.
38. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
39. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
43. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
46. A town in southern Turkey.
47. A European river.
49. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
57. A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.
60. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
61. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
63. Of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture.
65. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
74. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
75. A doctor's degree in education.
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