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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Soft-shell clams.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
15. An accidental happening.
16. Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear.
17. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
18. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
19. Device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. Type genus of the Anatidae.
24. A Hindu prince or king in India.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
40. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
42. Not existing.
44. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. Being one more than ninety.
50. A retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime.
54. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
56. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
57. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
59. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
63. An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present.
66. Wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623).
70. In or of the present month.
71. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
73. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
74. Type genus of the Majidae.
75. Relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska.
77. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
78. Chief port of Yemen.
79. A jumble of things to be given away.
80. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Flat tableland with steep edges.
5. Up to the present time.
6. Of or relating to or involving an area.
7. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
8. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
9. A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.
10. The sign language used in the United States.
11. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
12. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
13. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
14. Type genus of the Amiidae.
20. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
22. Consisting of or made of cedar.
25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
26. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
27. An East Indian sailor.
29. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
30. In bed.
33. True firs.
34. East Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals.
35. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
37. An oil port in southern Iraq.
38. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
41. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
45. (combining form) Former.
46. An abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity or excitability.
51. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
52. Tropical American thorny shrub or small tree.
53. A native or inhabitant of Crete.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
58. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
60. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
61. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980).
62. A grant made by a law court.
64. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
65. River in eastern Asia.
67. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
68. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
69. A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars).
72. Preserve of crushed fruit.
76. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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