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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. Educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894).
12. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
15. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
16. Someone who escapes.
17. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
18. The capital of Bahrain.
20. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
21. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
22. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
23. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
24. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
26. Remove the fangs from (canines, snakes, etc.).
28. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
36. A state in southeastern United States.
38. The academic world.
41. Made warm or hot.
42. A cruel and brutal fellow.
44. Make amends for.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. Possible to sell.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
51. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
56. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
58. At or constituting a border or edge.
60. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
61. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. Health care for the needy.
69. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
73. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
74. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
79. A port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.
81. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
82. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
83. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
84. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
2. Lower in esteem.
3. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
4. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
5. Seed of a pea plant.
6. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
7. The academic world.
8. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. The last (12th) month of the year.
11. Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939).
12. Not only so, but.
13. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
14. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
19. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
25. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
27. The cry made by sheep.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
33. European scaleless blenny.
34. Rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes.
35. Cause to be attached.
37. (sports) Someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
39. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
40. Colored or impregnated with dye.
43. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
46. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
47. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
49. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
54. Deliberately impassive in manner.
55. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
57. Leave a camp.
59. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
63. Being one more than fifty.
65. A particular environment or walk of life.
67. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
68. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
70. A quantity of no importance.
71. Very dark black.
72. An informal term for a father.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
80. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
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