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1. Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers.
5. The dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants.
12. God of the earth.
15. Chief port of Yemen.
16. A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition.
17. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
18. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
20. Liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice.
21. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
22. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
23. Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324).
25. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
28. Speak as if delivering a sermon.
30. Several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed.
33. God of wealth and love.
34. An active and efficient cause.
35. A Russian river.
37. The smallest detectable sensation.
41. Goddess of fate.
42. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
44. The shore of a sea or ocean.
49. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
50. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
51. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
52. Being without physical aid.
54. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
56. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
58. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
60. (archaic) Of persons.
62. (Welsh) Goddess famous for her beauty.
67. United States baseball player (born 1925).
71. East Asian perennial herbs.
72. A public promotion of some product or service.
74. A city of central China.
75. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
80. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
81. A fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery.
82. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
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1. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
2. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
3. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
4. Tending to reserve or introspection.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
8. Great coolness and composure under strain.
9. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
10. Ground snakes.
11. A cgs unit of work or energy.
12. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
13. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
14. A cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.
19. Rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese.
24. An inflammatory swelling or sore.
26. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
27. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
29. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
31. (astronomy) The reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse.
32. Spread or daub over.
36. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
38. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
39. Social insect living in organized colonies.
40. Australian clover fern.
43. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
45. Of or relating to a creed.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843).
48. Nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter.
53. A numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.
55. God of wisdom or prophesy.
57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
61. 16 ounces.
63. Type genus of the Ranidae.
64. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
65. Deeply moved.
66. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
68. Possessing material wealth.
69. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
70. Type genus of the Anatidae.
73. Lacking in light.
77. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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