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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
11. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
16. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
17. Black birds having a raucous call.
18. A French abbot.
19. A generalization of the concept of a vector.
20. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
21. A small piece of cloth.
23. A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries.
27. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
28. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
31. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
32. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
35. The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music.
39. Someone who listens attentively.
40. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
41. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
42. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
43. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
45. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
47. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
49. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
52. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
53. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
56. The cry made by sheep.
57. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
58. A person of exceptional importance and reputation.
61. Not final or absolute.
63. (an Irish term of address expressing affection) Darling.
66. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Armor plate that protects the head.
74. Greek mythology.
75. (Irish) The sea personified.
76. Oldest known reptiles.
78. Black tropical American cuckoo.
79. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
80. A great raja.
81. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
4. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
5. (Judeo-Christian religion) Chief spirit of evil and adversary of God.
6. Very attentive or observant.
7. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
8. Annul by recalling or rescinding.
9. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
10. An ornamental flower garden.
11. The opposite of entropy.
12. A pre-Christian priest among the Celts of ancient Gaul and Britain and Ireland.
13. The recipient of funds or other benefits.
14. A grant made by a law court.
22. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
24. The Creator.
25. Remaining after all deductions.
26. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
29. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
30. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
33. Former measure of the US economy.
34. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
36. Type genus of the Triglidae.
37. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
38. (Canadian) A half-breed of white and Indian parentage.
44. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
46. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
48. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
50. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
51. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
54. East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder.
55. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
59. Muslim name for God.
60. A town in southwestern Idaho.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. In bed.
65. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
67. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
68. A Russian river.
69. A female domestic.
72. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
73. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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