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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
5. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
11. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
15. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
16. Any long object resembling a thin line.
17. (archaic) A fitting reward.
18. Capable of being treated by surgical operation.
20. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
22. Wood of a pecan tree.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. Metal shackles.
26. Of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times.
28. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
35. A state of northeastern India.
37. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
41. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
43. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
45. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
46. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
48. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
49. A cart drawn by a dog.
52. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
55. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
63. A festival featuring African-American culture.
69. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
70. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
73. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. Clover ferns.
78. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
79. Being nine more than fifty.
80. Relating to or demonstrating acapnia.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.
2. Blatant or sensational promotion.
3. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
4. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
5. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
6. Of a pale purple color.
7. In bed.
8. 16 ounces.
9. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
10. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
11. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
12. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh.
13. The state or fact of existing.
14. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
19. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
24. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
27. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
29. Sometimes placed in Smilacaceae.
31. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
32. Of or relating to a creed.
34. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
36. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
38. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
39. Affected manners intended to impress others.
40. A large number or amount.
42. Singing jazz.
44. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
47. Travel up, "We ascended the mountain".
50. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
51. A pair of shoes with cleats on the soles.
53. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
54. Extremely pleasing.
56. An informal term for a father.
58. United States film maker (1897-1991).
60. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. An architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness.
65. A mythical Greek hero.
66. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
67. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
68. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
71. Of southern Europe.
72. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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