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1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
4. A jail (literally, a French jail).
12. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
15. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
16. Of or involving or contained in the arteries.
17. Step on it.
18. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
19. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
20. Lower in esteem.
22. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
24. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
31. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
35. Popular dance music of Brazil.
39. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
40. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
41. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
45. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
46. Wish harm upon.
48. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
51. Away from the mouth or oral region.
52. A French abbot.
53. Chief port of Yemen.
54. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
55. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
57. A doctor's degree in religion.
60. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
68. Island in West Indies.
70. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
72. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
73. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
74. The organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality.
76. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
77. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
78. A game played with young children.
79. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
3. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
4. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
5. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
6. An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.
7. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
8. Irritate or vex.
9. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
13. A city in Tuscany.
14. A condition requiring relief.
21. English monk and scholar (672-735).
23. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
26. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
27. A state in midwestern United States.
29. A small roofed building affording shade and rest.
32. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
33. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
34. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
36. A specific sequence of three adjacent bases on a strand of DNA or RNA that provides genetic code information for a particular amino acid.
37. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
38. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
42. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
43. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
44. On or toward the lee.
47. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
49. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
50. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
59. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
61. Cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (Southern).
62. Very dark black.
63. A disdainful pouting grimace.
64. One who works hard at boring tasks.
65. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
66. God of love and erotic desire.
67. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
69. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
71. The bill in a restaurant.
75. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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