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1. A master's degree in theology.
4. Incompletely or imperfectly shaped.
12. Inquire about.
15. An affirmative.
16. A long slender cigar.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
19. Island in West Indies.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
23. Compete for something.
25. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
27. Any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system.
30. Type genus of the Anatidae.
31. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
35. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
36. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
39. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
44. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
46. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
49. The capital and largest city of Norway.
50. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
52. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
53. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
54. (of disease or anything resembling a disease) Constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
60. Tropical Asian starlings.
64. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
67. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962.
69. The act of swimming.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
75. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. Obtain from someone after their death.
78. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
79. An enclosed space.
80. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
81. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
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1. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
4. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating).
5. Provide commentary for a film, for example.
6. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
7. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
8. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. Oil palms.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. A city in northern India.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. Music composed for dancing the conga.
24. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
26. (trade mark) A soft form of cereal for infants.
28. Become louder.
29. United by being of the same opinion.
32. Cause to be embarrassed.
33. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
34. Any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. Consisting of or having the character of loam.
42. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
45. Moving to and fro suspended or as if suspended from above.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
51. (prefix) Half or partial.
55. A genus of Caltha.
57. A small cake leavened with yeast.
58. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
61. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
62. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
63. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
68. A student who studies excessively.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
73. God of war and sky.
77. A state in east central United States.
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