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1. A slow pace of running.
5. Covered with paving material.
12. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
15. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
16. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
17. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
18. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
19. A singer of carols.
20. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
21. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
23. Term of address for a man.
24. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Become imbued.
32. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
34. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
36. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A doctor's degree in optometry.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
53. A sudden very loud noise.
55. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
58. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
64. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
68. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
70. Put into a rage.
71. Follower of Rastafarianism.
74. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
75. A fraudulent business scheme.
76. Consisting of or related to language.
78. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
79. (prefix) Half or partial.
80. A lack of vitality.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. An ancient board game resembling backgammon.
4. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
6. By bad luck.
7. A native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
8. Little known Kamarupan languages.
9. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
10. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
11. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
12. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
13. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
14. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
22. A lyric poet.
25. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. British informal term.
30. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
31. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
33. An expression of greeting.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
39. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
41. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
42. A populous province in northeastern China.
45. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
46. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
47. The quality of being alien.
48. An inhabitant of Lappland.
51. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
54. A Loloish language.
56. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
57. Make amends for.
59. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
65. Belonging to some prior time.
66. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
67. The template for protein synthesis.
69. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
72. A quantity of money.
73. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
77. Not out.
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