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1. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
5. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
15. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
16. British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987).
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
19. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
20. Depressing in character or appearance.
22. A volcanic island republic in Melanesia.
25. Any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind.
28. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
30. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
33. And nothing more.
36. Any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur gray above and white below with well-furred tails and large ears.
39. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
45. One of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers.
46. An informal term for a father.
48. Indicating the most important performer or role.
49. A short pithy instructive saying.
51. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. A port city in western France on the Loire estuary.
55. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
57. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
59. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
61. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
63. Bourbon with bitters and Pernod and sugar served with lemon peel.
67. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
75. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
76. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper.
79. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
80. A small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics.
81. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
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1. (British) A person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions.
4. Something that follows something else.
5. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
6. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high).
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. A large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property.
9. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
13. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
14. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
21. A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
24. A city in east central Texas.
26. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
27. Fastened with stitches.
29. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
31. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
32. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
34. Offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
35. Gracefully slender.
37. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
38. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
40. (used informally) Very small.
42. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. Someone who escapes.
52. Being four more than sixty.
56. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
58. A state in northwestern North America.
60. A large number or amount.
62. Jordan's port.
64. Largest known toad species.
65. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
66. Deeply moved.
68. Characteristic of false pride.
69. The basic unit of money in Peru.
70. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
73. God of the underworld.
74. (informal) Of the highest quality.
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