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1. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
5. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
15. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
16. Having a margin with rounded scallops.
17. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
18. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
20. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
22. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
23. A sudden very loud noise.
25. Make less active or intense.
27. Traveling by foot.
29. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
32. Narrow platform.
35. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
36. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
39. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
40. Swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas v 1.
42. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
45. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
46. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
47. Covering designed to be worn on a person's body.
50. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
51. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
52. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
53. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
55. Best of its kind on record.
58. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
59. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
60. An enclosed space.
61. An associate degree in nursing.
63. Lower in esteem.
72. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
73. Of or relating to or characteristic of the island of Tahiti or its residents of their language and culture.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
78. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
79. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
80. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
81. A great raja.
82. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
2. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
3. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
4. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
5. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
6. Upright in position or posture.
7. Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold.
8. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
9. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
11. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
12. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk.
13. On or toward the lee.
14. A sign of something about to happen.
19. A day of rest and worship.
21. A member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States.
24. A large number or amount.
26. Of southern Europe.
28. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
30. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
31. (medicine) Of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation.
33. 1 species.
34. A port city in western Kenya on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria.
37. A boy or man.
38. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
41. Placed crosswise.
43. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
44. A suburb of Paris.
48. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
49. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
54. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
57. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
65. A city in northern India.
66. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
67. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
68. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
70. Not easy.
71. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
75. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
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