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1. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
4. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
12. (informal) Roused to anger.
15. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
16. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
19. Someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes.
20. State in northeastern India.
22. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
24. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
25. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
27. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
29. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
34. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
35. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
39. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
41. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
44. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
46. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
47. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
48. At full speed.
49. A kind of person.
52. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
53. A loose cloak with a hood.
57. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
60. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
62. A state in northwestern North America.
66. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
70. A branch of the Tai languages.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
78. A light touch or stroke.
79. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
80. Befitting or characteristic of a fully mature woman.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Any loose flowing garment.
3. The capital of Morocco.
4. English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape.
5. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
6. A town in north central Oklahoma.
7. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
8. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
9. Leaf bugs.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Fallow deer.
21. A deep bow.
23. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
30. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
33. United States writer (born in 1923).
36. A geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry.
37. A sharp sound made by small birds or insects v 1.
38. Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers.
40. A linen tape used for trimming as a decoration.
42. A Hindu prince or king in India.
43. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
50. A master's degree in library science.
51. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
54. A French river.
55. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
56. Lower in esteem.
58. Someone whose employment involves carrying something.
59. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets.
61. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
63. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
68. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
72. A master's degree in fine arts.
73. A loud utterance.
75. The square of a body of any size of type.
76. A state in east central United States.
77. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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