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1. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
5. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
11. In bed.
15. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
16. A large number or amount.
17. A quantity of no importance.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. Worn by rubbing or friction.
22. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
24. The domain ruled by an emperor or empress.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. Of or relating to or measured in ohms.
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
31. South American cavy.
34. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC).
38. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
41. A young woman.
42. Small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping.
44. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
45. A city in northwestern Syria.
46. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
47. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
49. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
52. Characteristic of the classical artistic and literary traditions.
55. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
58. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
59. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
61. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
64. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
66. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
70. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
73. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
75. A master's degree in business.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
80. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
81. Small genus of shrubs and subshrubs of western United States having flowers that change color as they mature.
82. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
3. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
4. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
5. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
6. A populous province in northeastern China.
7. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
8. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
9. Very close in friendship or affection.
10. The bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint.
11. Black tropical American cuckoo.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
14. An informal term for a father.
19. (in various religions) The world of the dead.
21. Located in or toward the back or rear.
23. Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap.
25. One million periods per second.
28. Informal terms for a mother.
30. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
32. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
33. Tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye).
35. (biology) Covered with hairs especially fine soft ones.
36. A minor match preceding the main event.
37. Wool of the alpaca.
39. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
40. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
51. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
53. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
54. United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970).
56. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
57. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
60. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
62. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
63. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
65. A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
69. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
71. The residue that remains when something is burned.
72. An accountant certified by the state.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
78. Being one more than one.
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