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1. Enlarged prostate.
4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. Distant in either space or time.
15. A Nilotic language.
16. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
17. Imprudently incurring risk.
18. A song that was formerly popular.
20. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
21. A master's degree in religion.
22. United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955).
24. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
26. An ability that has been acquired by training.
28. American novelist (1909-1955).
31. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
32. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
36. A member of the eastern branch of the Sioux.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. (Irish) The sea personified.
41. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
43. A radioactive transuranic element.
47. The quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
51. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
53. (anatomy) Being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body.
54. Extravasation of urine into the scrotal sac.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
62. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
64. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
69. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
72. In a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side.
73. A gambling card game of Spanish origin.
75. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
76. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
77. Small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia.
79. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
80. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
81. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language.
82. An informal term for a father.
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1. A group of countries in special alliance.
2. The basic unit of money in Botswana.
3. A blind god.
4. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. Store in a silo, as of fodder.
7. A genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand.
8. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
9. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. A large fleet.
12. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
13. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
14. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
19. A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one.
23. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
25. A person's brother or sister.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
30. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
33. Held in servitude.
34. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as').
35. Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.
37. Well matched.
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
42. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
44. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.
45. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
46. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
48. The basic unit of money in Iran.
49. Being nine more than forty.
50. A master's degree in education.
52. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
56. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
57. Type genus of the Annonaceae.
60. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
61. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
63. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
65. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
66. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
67. A sign of something about to happen.
68. The basic unit of money in Peru.
70. God of death.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
74. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
78. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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