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1. An awkward stupid person.
4. A port city is southern Indonesia.
12. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail.
17. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
18. Some point in the air.
20. A genus of Platalea.
21. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
22. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
25. A portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking.
27. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Before noon.
31. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
34. The constellation that includes the southern celestial pole.
37. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
39. An effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic).
41. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
47. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
49. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
53. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
54. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
57. A light touch or stroke.
59. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
61. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
62. By bad luck.
66. A member of the Uniat Church.
68. Characteristic of a baby.
70. A boy or man.
71. The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair).
75. Follower of Rastafarianism.
76. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. A genus of herbs of the family Cruciferae.
79. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
80. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
81. Be about.
82. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
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1. Attractiveness to the opposite sex.
2. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
3. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
4. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
7. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
8. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
10. Causing or able to cause nausea.
11. A state of southwestern India.
12. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
13. A town in north central Oklahoma.
14. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
19. Jordan's port.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
26. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
30. A master's degree in fine arts.
32. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
33. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
35. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
36. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
38. United States comic actor in silent films.
40. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
42. Bar temporarily.
43. Extremely pleasing.
46. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island.
48. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
50. Of or relating an apse.
52. A city and port in northern Jutland.
55. Of an instrument of certain death.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. The cry made by sheep.
60. The month following March and preceding May.
63. Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886).
64. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
65. Of businesses and businessmen.
67. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
69. (informal) Exceptionally good.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
73. Not in good physical or mental health.
74. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
78. A state in midwestern United States.
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