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1. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
4. Beat with a cane.
11. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
17. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
18. An audiotape recording of sound.
19. A drug (trade name Capoten) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidneys resulting in vasodilation.
20. A notice of someone's death.
21. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
23. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
25. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
26. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
28. Cause to change.
29. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
30. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
33. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
38. Of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. A large fleet.
46. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
47. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
50. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
51. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Brusque and surly and forbidding.
69. Characterized by rising prices.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
75. A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey.
77. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
78. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
79. Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects.
80. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
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1. A genus of Ploceidae.
2. Make off with belongings of others.
3. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
4. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
5. American Revolutionary patriot.
6. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
9. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings.
10. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
11. Declare formally.
12. The capital of Morocco.
13. Having the same or similar characteristics.
14. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
22. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
24. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
27. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
34. Remove from memory or existence.
35. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
36. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
37. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
40. Chief port of Yemen.
41. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
43. Jordan's port.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. Type genus of the Haemulidae.
49. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
52. God of love and erotic desire.
54. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
56. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. A radioactive transuranic element.
60. Wood of a sumac.
61. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
62. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
64. In bed.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
68. Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues.
71. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
72. Used of a single unit or thing.
73. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
76. Being one more than one.
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