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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. The animal order including amoebas.
12. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Deeply eroded barren land.
17. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
20. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
22. A large fleet.
24. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
26. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
27. Blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel.
29. Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion.
30. A state in north central United States.
32. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
34. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
38. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
42. Filled with a great quantity.
43. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
46. By bad luck.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
50. An informal term for a father.
52. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
54. Vietnamese New Year.
55. A flexible container with a single opening.
57. A fraudulent business scheme.
60. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
64. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
68. American novelist (1909-1955).
69. The income arising from land or other property.
72. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
73. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
76. An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities.
77. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
78. Any of several free-flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia.
80. Extremely robust.
81. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
82. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
83. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
4. The address where a person lives.
5. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
6. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
7. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. The innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel).
10. A doctor's degree in religion.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
13. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
14. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
21. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
23. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
25. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
28. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
31. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
33. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
35. Enthusiastic approval.
36. Having winglike extensions.
37. Device for resetting instruments or controls v 1.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. Black tropical American cuckoo.
44. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. A French abbot.
53. Regional and archaic.
56. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
58. A city in northwestern Syria.
59. The vein in the center of a leaf.
61. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
62. Make dull or stupid.
63. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
65. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
66. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
67. A particular environment or walk of life.
70. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
71. English essayist (1775-1834).
74. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
75. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
79. An associate degree in nursing.
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