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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
5. A person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward.
12. Having only superficial plausibility.
15. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
16. Pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk.
17. A rapid bustling commotion.
18. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. Decreasing in amount or intensity.
20. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
21. Insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing.
22. Coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude.
24. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
26. A bluish shade of green.
27. Any cone-shaped artifact.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
32. Lacking excess flesh.
35. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
36. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
44. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
45. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
48. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
49. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
50. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
53. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
54. Not out.
55. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
57. Of high moral or intellectual value.
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. Not only so, but.
64. A state in New England.
65. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
68. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
71. A French abbot.
72. Russian ballet dancer (1910-1998).
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
78. An associate degree in applied science.
79. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
80. Annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers.
81. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
3. A city in northwestern Syria.
4. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
5. Observe the stars.
6. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
7. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
8. Select as an alternative.
9. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
10. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
11. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
12. Someone released on probation or on parole.
13. Chief port of Yemen.
14. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
23. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
25. Make steady.
28. Order by virtue of superior authority.
29. An extreme state of adversity.
33. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
34. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
37. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
38. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
39. Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines.
41. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
43. Make reference to.
46. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
47. Having or using only one filament.
51. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
52. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
56. Tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack.
58. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
63. A Spanish river.
66. Affected by wear.
67. Being seven more than fifty.
69. South African term for `boss'.
70. A kiln for drying hops.
73. The products of human creativity.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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