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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. The quality of glittering or sparkling brightly.
11. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
16. Very small species of shrubs of southern hemisphere.
17. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
18. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
20. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
21. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
22. A genus of Sterninae.
24. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
25. The capital of Nationalist China.
27. An informal term for a father.
28. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
30. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
32. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
33. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
36. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
40. A mountainous island in western Indonesia.
43. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
44. Big-eyed scad.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Jordan's port.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. The act of scanning.
57. A slender graceful young woman.
59. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
60. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
63. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
65. A state in northwestern North America.
66. A resident of Iowa.
69. Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry.
72. South African term for `boss'.
74. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
76. A machine or person that adds.
77. Type genus of the Apidae.
78. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
80. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
81. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
82. (Assyrian and Babylonian) The chief sun god.
83. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
2. Endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys.
3. Lose blood from one's body.
4. The father of your father or mother.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. A council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business.
8. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
9. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
10. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
11. Pacific newts.
12. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
13. On or toward the lee.
14. (Norse mythology) Trickster.
19. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
26. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
29. An oil port in southern Iraq.
31. The leader of an Arab village or family.
34. An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization.
35. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
37. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
38. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
39. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
41. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
42. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
45. Lower in esteem.
48. The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis.
49. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
51. Remove the hand from.
54. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves.
56. At all times.
58. A town in south central Washington.
61. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
64. Having help.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
70. Type genus of the Nepidae.
71. Taken or to be taken at random.
73. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
75. A master's degree in theology.
79. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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