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1. Having only superficial plausibility.
4. Lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
18. Hot or warm and humid.
20. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
21. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
22. Dyed with henna.
24. (computer science) A unit for measuring computing power.
26. Malicious burning to destroy property.
27. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
29. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
31. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
36. Wild and domestic cattle.
39. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
42. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
43. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
44. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
46. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
47. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
50. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
53. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
55. Used of a single unit or thing.
56. Any plant of the genus Erica.
58. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
60. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
62. Type genus of the Sphyrnidae.
66. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.
72. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
75. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
80. Minor or subordinate.
81. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
82. How long something has existed.
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1. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
2. Cause to change.
3. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
4. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
5. Make amends for.
6. Being one more than one hundred.
7. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
8. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus.
9. Either extremity of something that has length.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
11. Combining form.
12. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. A book of the New Testament.
19. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
23. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
25. 36th President of the United States.
28. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
30. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
32. Wood duck and mandarin duck.
33. Serving temporarily especially as a substitute.
34. Be successful.
35. Deciduous horn of a member of the deer family.
37. (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis.
38. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
40. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
41. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
45. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
48. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
49. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
51. Refresh one's memory.
52. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.
61. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
63. Address God.
64. Engage or hire for work.
65. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
67. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. A neutral middle vowel.
70. 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.
71. Belonging to some prior time.
73. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
74. (used informally) Very small.
78. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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