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1. How long something has existed.
4. Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots.
12. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
15. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
16. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
17. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
18. An associate degree in applied science.
19. A resident of Dublin.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. A minor match preceding the main event.
23. An affirmative.
24. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Using language effectively to please or persuade.
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
33. A primeval personification of air and breath.
34. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
37. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. Jordan's port.
47. A source of danger.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
52. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
56. 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.
58. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
59. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. The food served and eaten at one time.
62. The residue that remains when something is burned.
64. Remove the clip from.
66. A palace and fortress built in Granada by the Moslems in the Middle Ages.
71. American novelist (1909-1955).
72. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
75. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
76. A master's degree in education.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
81. A great raja.
82. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
3. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
6. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
7. Neat and tidy.
8. Flexible twig of a willow tree.
9. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
10. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
11. (botany) Especially of plant parts.
12. A rich black loam of India.
13. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
14. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
22. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
25. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
28. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
30. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
32. The cry made by sheep.
35. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
36. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
40. English monk and scholar (672-735).
41. Of someone who has not been married.
42. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
45. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
46. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
48. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
53. The shape of a bell.
54. To work at or to absurd length.
55. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
60. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
63. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
65. Give over.
67. A Russian river.
68. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
69. Type genus of the Ranidae.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
74. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
77. Before noon.
78. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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