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1. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
4. Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
16. A small motor vehicle in which golfers can ride between shots.
17. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
18. Having a woven pattern.
20. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
21. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
22. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
23. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
25. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
27. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
31. Indigo bush.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
47. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
52. Clear to the mind.
53. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
55. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
58. Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit.
59. Any plant of the genus Erica.
61. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
64. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
67. Conforming to truth.
69. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
75. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
76. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
77. Resembling a tail.
79. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
80. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
81. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
82. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers.
2. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
3. Wood of a sumac.
4. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
5. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
6. Being nine more than forty.
7. Regional and archaic.
8. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
9. A periodic paperback publication.
10. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
11. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
12. With playful slyness or roguishness.
13. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
14. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
19. Of or relating to or involving an area.
24. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
26. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
28. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
37. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. Inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold.
41. On or toward the lee.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
46. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
48. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
49. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
50. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
51. English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape.
54. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
56. Someone who operates an aircraft.
57. An outstanding Spanish cellist noted for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876-1973).
60. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
62. A timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end.
63. Leafless East Indian vine.
65. Largest known toad species.
66. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
68. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
74. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
78. One thousand periods per second.
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