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1. 10 grams.
4. Relating to bees or beekeeping.
12. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant.
17. The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition.
18. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
19. An air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire).
20. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
21. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
23. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
24. The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place.
26. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
28. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
30. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
31. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
32. A member of a people of India living in Maharashtra.
34. The term during which some position is held.
37. Deliberately impassive in manner.
41. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
44. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
45. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. A tight-fitting garment that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles).
52. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
53. Serving as or forming a base.
56. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
58. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
59. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
62. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
65. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
66. The content of cognition.
68. 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.
70. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
73. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
74. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
75. An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding).
77. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
78. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
79. A single-reed instrument with a straight tube.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Russian country house.
2. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
3. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
4. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
5. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
6. Confined to bed (by illness).
7. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
8. Someone who helps to gather the harvest.
9. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
10. One who assists a minister in a liturgical service.
11. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
12. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
13. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific.
14. A padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm.
22. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
25. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
27. A stopping.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
35. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
36. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
38. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
39. The capital of Western Samoa.
40. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
42. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
43. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
47. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding.
48. Likely but not certain to be or become true or real.
49. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
51. A form of Japanese poetry.
54. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976).
55. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
57. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
63. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
67. Fallow deer.
69. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
71. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
72. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
76. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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