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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
12. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
15. Having leadership guidance.
16. Leaf bugs.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru and founded Lima (1475-1541).
20. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
21. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
23. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
24. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
26. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
27. American novelist (1909-1955).
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
30. Not restrained or confined or attached.
31. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
34. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
36. Of or in or relating to the nose.
39. Armor plate that protects the chest.
43. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
44. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. Pepsi Cola is a trademarked cola.
50. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
51. A sudden forceful flow.
53. (medicine) A small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes.
56. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. Make lighter or brighter.
60. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
63. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
74. (computer science) A read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data.
75. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
76. Pronounce with a lowered velum.
78. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
79. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
80. Someone who operates an aircraft.
81. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
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1. First in order of importance.
2. The state or fact of existing.
3. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
4. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
5. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
6. Relating to or characteristic of an apogee.
7. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
8. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
9. A doctor's degree in education.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. In an unnatural eery manner.
12. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
13. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
14. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
19. Of or relating to or involving an area.
22. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
25. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
28. One celestial body obscures another v 1.
32. An extreme state of adversity.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
37. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
38. A city in northwestern Syria.
40. A province in north-central China.
41. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
42. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
47. Having a sophisticated charm.
48. A city in southeastern South Korea.
49. A helpful partner.
52. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
54. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
55. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
58. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
64. Type genus of the Anatidae.
65. Any competition.
66. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
67. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
68. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
69. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
72. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
73. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
77. (Sumerian) Evil storm god represented as a black bird.
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