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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
5. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
12. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
15. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
16. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
17. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
18. The third month of the civil year.
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
22. Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962).
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
25. A flexible container with a single opening.
26. The upper branches and leaves of a tree.
28. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
31. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
32. Moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed.
36. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
39. Black tropical American cuckoo.
40. A victory cheer.
41. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. A book of the New Testament.
47. Greek mythology.
52. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
53. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
54. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
55. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
57. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
60. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
61. Toward the mouth or oral region.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
65. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
68. Using speech rather than writing.
71. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
72. Informal terms for a mother.
73. Causing or able to cause nausea.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Southern African weasel.
79. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
80. The month following February and preceding April.
81. A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey.
82. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
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1. United States writer of stories and plays (1894-1946).
2. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic.
3. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
4. A person who passes by casually or by chance.
5. How long something has existed.
6. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
7. Before noon.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. A port city in southwestern Iran.
10. Tag the base runner to get him out.
11. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
14. An unforeseen obstacle.
19. Of an instrument of certain death.
24. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
27. Poisonous herbs.
29. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
30. A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow.
33. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
34. Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC).
35. (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades.
37. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
38. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
42. British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964).
43. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
44. An informal term for a father.
48. The academic world.
49. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
50. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
51. Vertical space available to allow easy passage under something.
56. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
58. Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813).
59. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
63. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
64. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
66. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
67. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
70. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
74. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
78. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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