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1. A republic in western South America.
5. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
11. Toward the mouth or oral region.
15. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
16. An ancient city in northwestern Iran.
17. Any loose flowing garment.
18. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
19. Prince Consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861).
20. The content of cognition.
21. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
23. Informal terms for a mother.
25. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
27. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
29. An abrupt failure of function or health.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
37. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
41. Wife of Balder.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
46. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
48. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
53. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
55. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
58. Frivolous banter.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. (Babylonian) The sky god.
62. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
65. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
72. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
76. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
80. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
81. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
82. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
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1. Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
4. Unwind or untwist.
5. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
6. Offering fun and gaiety.
7. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
8. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. An antiviral drug used in the treatment of AIDS.
11. A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz).
12. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
13. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
14. Made of fir or pine.
22. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
24. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
31. Tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. United States writer (born in 1933).
35. Old World tropical herbs.
38. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
40. Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
50. A cyst on the underside of the tongue.
52. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
54. The sixth month of the civil year.
56. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. English monk and scholar (672-735).
63. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
66. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
69. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
70. (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree.
71. Type genus of the Anatidae.
73. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
74. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. Before noon.
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