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1. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
5. (psychology) An urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
16. An overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship.
17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
18. A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
22. A formal spoken communication delivered to an audience.
24. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
26. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
27. Primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull.
29. A ketone that forms the nucleus of certain natural yellow pigments like riboflavin.
32. Not at all or in no way.
35. Presence of excess lipids in the blood.
37. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
39. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
40. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
42. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
43. Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula.
50. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
53. Of or relating to or in the manner of Erasmus.
56. United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924).
58. Understood in a certain way.
59. (informal) Very tired.
60. At full speed.
63. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
66. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
69. (Roman Catholic) A diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status.
71. Found along western Atlantic coast.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
74. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
75. An event that occurs at a critical time.
77. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
78. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
79. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. The noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash adv.
3. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
4. Lift forcefully from beneath.
5. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
6. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
10. Being one more than one hundred.
11. Type genus of the Elopidae.
12. Incapable of or resistant to bending.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
21. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
23. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. A military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.
30. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
31. South American cavy.
33. A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere).
34. An East Indian sailor.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
41. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
44. An aromatic exudate from the mastic tree.
45. City in eastern Belgium.
46. A person who eats human flesh.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
49. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
54. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
55. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
57. Money returned to a payer.
61. A term used in Scottish names of promontories.
62. Type genus of the Anatidae.
64. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
65. Baby bed with high sides.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. God of love and erotic desire.
70. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
72. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
76. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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