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1. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
4. (of e.g. speech and writing) Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.
12. A shape that sags.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Bubble shells.
17. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
18. A resource.
19. Smallest guenon monkey.
20. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
21. A Formosan language.
23. Filled with a great quantity.
25. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
29. Innumerable but many.
33. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
34. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
35. A bachelor's degree in science.
36. A sudden very loud noise.
40. Crowd or pack to capacity.
41. 16 ounces.
43. Habitual mode of behavior.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
49. An erratic deflection from an intended course.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. (Scot) A leather strap for punishing children.
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
55. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
58. An angular shape made by folding.
62. A British doctorate.
64. Any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers.
66. An irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch.
70. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
73. A foot traveler.
74. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
75. Be earlier in time.
78. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
79. A column of light (as from a beacon).
80. A great raja.
81. Remaining after all deductions.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
4. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
5. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
6. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
7. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
8. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
9. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
10. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
11. A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives.
12. A biased way of looking at or presenting something.
13. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
14. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
22. Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.
24. Order by virtue of superior authority.
27. Plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped gray and green and white warty rinds.
30. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
31. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
32. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
37. A Bantu language.
38. American Revolutionary patriot.
39. Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
42. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
45. German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956).
48. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
51. Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum.
53. A city in north-central India.
56. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
57. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
59. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
60. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
61. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
63. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
65. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
67. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
68. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
69. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone.
71. Seed of a pea plant.
72. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
76. The fifth day of the week.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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