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1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
4. Any stimulating information or event.
12. A partially opened flower.
15. Seed of a pea plant.
16. Something that causes irritation and annoyance.
17. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. The event of being born.
20. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
21. Clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity).
23. Sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders.
25. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
29. An offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer.
32. A loss of will power.
33. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
35. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
39. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
41. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
44. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
45. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
46. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
48. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
50. A doctor's degree in education.
51. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
53. A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture).
55. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
59. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
61. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. Bark rich in tannin.
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
73. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
75. In a convenient manner.
76. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
77. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
79. The month following August and preceding October.
80. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
81. A great raja.
82. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. One by one.
5. An open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food.
6. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
7. Typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects.
8. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
9. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
10. Beyond what is natural.
11. Any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
13. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
14. An Italian woman of rank.
22. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
27. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
30. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
31. Common black European thrush.
34. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
36. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
37. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
38. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
43. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
47. (Old Testament) King of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC).
49. Being one more than fifty.
52. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
54. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. On or toward the lee.
65. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
66. Type genus of the Ranidae.
67. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
68. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
69. A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics).
70. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
71. A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind.
74. 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.
78. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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