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1. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
4. (of goods and merchandise) Marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights.
11. Not reflecting light.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
17. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
18. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
20. German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925).
21. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
22. The act of scanning.
24. That can be given a date.
26. Talk pompously.
28. A city of central China.
29. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
32. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
34. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
35. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
38. A Loloish language.
39. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
42. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. Hard smooth-textured cheese.
45. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
50. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
51. Being one more than two.
52. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
53. A Hindu prince or king in India.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
56. French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687).
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
61. A burner that produces a hot flame.
63. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
65. A soft silvery metallic element.
66. One of two official languages of Norway.
69. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
71. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
73. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
74. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
75. Battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761.
78. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
79. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
80. Word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. The capital of Turkey.
7. Large Indian antelope.
8. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
9. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
11. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
12. Relating to or associated with Arabia or its people.
13. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
14. Understood in a certain way.
19. (zoology) Relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida.
23. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
25. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
27. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
30. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
31. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
33. An informal term for a father.
36. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
37. Of or relating to or involving an area.
40. Felt hat with a creased crown.
41. An adult male singer with the lowest voice.
44. Shaped like a dish.
46. The mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1.
47. (Brit) One who sells goods on the installment plan.
48. An involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear).
49. A state in midwestern United States.
55. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
57. State capital of New York.
58. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
60. Permitting leaks or leakage.
62. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
64. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. God of love and erotic desire.
70. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
72. Injured by bites or stings.
76. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
77. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
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