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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers.
12. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
16. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
17. A young woman making her debut into society.
18. A master's degree in business.
19. Black tea grown in China.
20. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
22. The rays of the sun.
24. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
25. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
26. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
29. A cravat with wide square ends.
35. A Loloish language.
38. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
40. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
41. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
43. Enthusiastic approval.
44. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
45. (informal) Exceptionally good.
47. In addition.
48. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
50. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
52. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
53. Type genus of the Anatidae.
56. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
59. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
64. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
68. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
70. An oil port in southern Iraq.
74. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
75. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
79. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
80. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
81. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
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1. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
2. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
3. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
4. An indication of approved or superior status.
5. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
6. Hardened sugary exudation of various trees.
7. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
8. A Nilotic language.
9. A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia.
10. Being one more than one.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
13. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
14. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
21. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
23. A place that is scoured (especially by running water) v 1.
27. An installment of a printed work.
28. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
30. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
31. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
33. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
34. Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft).
36. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
37. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
39. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
42. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
49. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
51. A Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy.
54. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
57. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
58. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
65. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
66. A young woman.
67. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
69. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
72. An honorary degree in science.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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