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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) Having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles.
12. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
15. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
16. An artificial language proposed as an auxiliary European language.
17. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
18. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
20. Make amendments to.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area.
24. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
28. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
30. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
33. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
34. An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.
35. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
41. Not upright in position or posture.
44. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
46. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
47. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
48. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
50. Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits.
51. A thrusting blow with a knife.
52. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
54. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
55. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
63. English monk and scholar (672-735).
66. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
70. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
71. Use explosives on.
75. (Babylonian) God of fire.
76. The bill in a restaurant.
77. Any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones.
79. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
80. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
81. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
82. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
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1. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. A city in Tuscany.
3. Not fake or counterfeit.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. Happening or recurring at regular intervals.
6. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
7. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
8. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
9. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
10. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
11. Either extremity of something that has length.
12. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
13. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
14. Jordan's port.
19. Experiencing a sudden sense of danger.
23. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
25. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
27. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. Growing in two parts or in pairs.
32. A drama set to music.
38. Mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
39. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
40. An episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll.
42. Humorously vulgar.
43. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
45. The act of swimming.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
53. A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century.
56. A sudden and violent collapse.
57. Before noon.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
60. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
61. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
62. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
64. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
65. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
67. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
68. Extremely robust.
69. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
72. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
73. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
74. The fatty flesh of eel.
78. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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