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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye.
11. A thrusting blow with a knife.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
17. Being on the left side.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people.
20. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
24. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
25. Rate of revolution of a motor.
27. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. Celestial shepherd god.
34. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. Shaped like a ring.
41. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
42. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
46. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
47. Before noon.
49. A Russian river.
50. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
51. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
53. 8th and most important avatar of Vishnu.
55. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
56. (Japanese) Rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed.
60. A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.
62. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
63. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
64. Sour or bitter in taste.
67. A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
71. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
73. Jordan's port.
77. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
81. The habitation of wild animals.
82. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
83. A decree that prohibits something.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. An informal term for a father.
5. Small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.
6. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
7. Very light colored.
8. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
9. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
10. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
11. Befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior.
12. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
13. An active and efficient cause.
14. God of wealth and love.
22. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
26. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Of electrical appliances.
32. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
33. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
36. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
37. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
38. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
39. (used informally) Very small.
40. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
43. A Mid-Atlantic state.
44. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
45. A dough of flour and water and shortening.
48. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
52. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
54. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
57. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
58. Large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil.
59. Small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches.
61. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
65. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
66. A vigorous blow.
68. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
69. Common Indian weaverbird.
70. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
72. An accountant certified by the state.
74. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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