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1. Worthless people.
5. Back part of the head or skull.
12. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement.
20. A form of address for a man.
21. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
23. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. A formal expression of praise.
34. Type genus of the Phocidae.
38. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
39. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
41. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
42. Status with respect to the relations between people or groups.
45. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
48. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. A social division of (usually preliterate) people.
53. Jordan's port.
54. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
55. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. An associate degree in nursing.
60. God of death.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. Tag the base runner to get him out.
66. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
67. A heathen (especially a Muslim).
73. 10 grams.
75. A reformed prostitute.
77. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
78. The residue that remains when something is burned.
79. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
80. Being one more than two.
81. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
82. Noteworthy scarcity.
83. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
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1. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
2. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
3. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
4. A crime syndicate in the United States.
5. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
6. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
7. Being one more than one hundred.
8. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
9. A person authorized to conduct religious worship.
10. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
11. Herbs of temperate regions.
12. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. A master's degree in library science.
19. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
22. An endorsement.
25. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
27. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
28. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
29. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
31. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
32. Nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing.
35. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
36. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
37. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
40. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
43. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
44. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
49. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
50. Bubble shells.
56. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
58. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
61. Lower in esteem.
63. A strong emotion.
65. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
68. (Roman mythology) God of love.
69. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
70. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
71. Characteristic of false pride.
72. Type genus of the Apidae.
74. Military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces.
76. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
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