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1. An accountant certified by the state.
4. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
12. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. Someone who educates.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
20. Paper with a crinkled texture.
21. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
22. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
23. Avatar of Vishnu.
25. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
27. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
28. Type genus of Ursidae.
35. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
38. Using speech rather than writing.
40. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
42. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
43. Excessively fat.
44. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
46. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
48. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
49. A person who eats human flesh.
51. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
54. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
56. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
58. A desert in southern Israel.
61. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
62. God of wealth and love.
65. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
71. 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.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
78. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
79. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
80. Highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide.
81. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
4. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
5. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
6. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
8. God of death.
9. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
10. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
12. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
29. An official or legal cancellation.
30. Polished and well-groomed.
31. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
32. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
33. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
34. Any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers.
36. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
37. Heal or recover.
39. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
41. A genus of Malayan tree.
45. Being one more than fifty.
47. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
50. A flexible container with a single opening.
52. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
53. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
57. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
63. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
66. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. Report or maintain.
70. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
72. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
73. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
77. Being nine more than ninety.
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