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1. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
5. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
11. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
15. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
16. Produced by inbreeding.
17. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction.
20. A doctor's degree in optometry.
22. Half the width of an em.
23. New World flycatchers.
25. A decree that prohibits something.
26. Of or in or relating to the nose.
28. A region in central Italy.
31. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
32. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
36. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
40. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. An informal term for a father.
45. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
48. The properties characteristic of the male sex.
50. Remove the scales from.
52. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
53. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
54. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
55. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
58. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. Offering fun and gaiety.
61. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
64. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
68. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
71. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
73. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
74. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
75. Enduring a very short time.
77. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
78. A large quantity of written matter.
79. Giving only major points.
80. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
2. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
3. (Irish) The sea personified.
4. A salt or ester of acetic acid.
5. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
6. A member of the Uniat Church.
7. 16 ounces.
8. Metal shackles.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. Young sheep.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
19. English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606).
21. Comic dramatist of ancient Greece (342-292 BC).
24. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
27. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
33. The beginning or early stages.
34. Large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland.
35. An implement used to erase something.
37. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
38. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
39. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
43. A stock exchange in New York.
44. Of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive n 1.
46. A white trivalent metallic element.
47. A telegram sent abroad.
49. Pertaining to a simple method of cell division.
51. Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987).
56. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
57. Wearing or provided with clothing.
60. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
62. Having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality.
63. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
65. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
66. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
67. For fear that.
69. A town in north central Oklahoma.
70. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
72. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
76. A state in New England.
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