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1. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. Being or having an unknown or unnamed source.
11. A tight cluster of people or things.
15. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
16. Any tumor derived from cells of the nervous system.
17. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
18. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
19. A canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun.
21. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
26. A Russian river.
28. Someone who is critical of the motives of others.
30. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
32. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
36. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
39. Of a surface.
40. A beautiful and graceful girl.
41. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
43. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile).
48. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
49. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
51. In a mildly insane manner.
53. Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907).
55. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
56. (music) A short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria.
57. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
59. A word or expression used for some particular thing.
60. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
61. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
63. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
66. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
69. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
71. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
73. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
74. Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.
77. Jordan's port.
79. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
80. A device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders.
83. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
84. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
85. Cause to be bitter or resentful.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
2. (golf) The cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke.
3. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
4. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
5. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
6. A woman religious.
7. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
9. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
10. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
11. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
12. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
13. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
14. A bluish shade of green.
20. Baby bed with high sides.
22. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.
24. Not out.
27. French novelist.
29. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
31. Encrusted with sugar or syrup.
33. Argentinian cariama.
34. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
35. (Norse mythology) Wife of Loki.
37. British composer (1857-1934).
38. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
42. Cruel or inhumane treatment.
45. Of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey).
46. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
50. Characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment.
52. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.
54. Motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.
58. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
62. Genus of African timber trees.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. Again but in a new or different way.
68. Rounded like an egg.
70. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
72. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
75. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
76. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
78. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
81. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
82. A New England state.
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