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1. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
5. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
12. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
15. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
16. (astronomy) "the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system".
17. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
18. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
19. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
20. Lap at the front of a coat.
22. Embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery.
24. Any plant of the genus Erica.
25. Of or like a feeble old woman.
28. Small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa.
35. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
39. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
40. Your general store of remembered information.
41. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
44. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
45. The basic unit of money on Malta.
48. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
51. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
54. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
55. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
58. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
59. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
63. A genus of Platalea.
66. Suggestive of the supernatural.
69. A branch of the Tai languages.
70. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
72. Forced to turn and face attackers.
74. A master's degree in business.
75. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
76. Consider as ideal.
78. Tag the base runner to get him out.
79. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
80. The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
4. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
5. Coat a metal with an oxide coat.
6. Cause to move back by force or influence.
7. Dwell (archaic).
8. A humorous play on words.
9. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
10. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
11. A city on the Loire river in north central France.
12. A native American tent.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Among the largest bony fish.
21. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
23. (Babylonian) The sky god.
26. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
27. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. The innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel).
30. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
33. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
34. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
37. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
42. A doctor's degree in optometry.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
46. Of or resembling algae.
47. Unknown god.
49. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
52. Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968).
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
57. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
60. A genus of Lamnidae.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Jordan's port.
64. (Roman mythology) Queen of the Olympian gods who protected marriage.
65. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
67. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
68. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
71. A rapid bustling commotion.
73. The habitation of wild animals.
77. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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