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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits.
17. A slight amount or degree of difference.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. Relating to or characteristic of wooded regions.
20. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
21. Imperfect development.
23. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
25. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
26. (Greek mythology) The king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War.
30. Perceive sound.
33. Report or maintain.
34. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
38. Lacking leadership.
40. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
42. Irish abbess.
44. Before noon.
45. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
46. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
49. Gone by.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
52. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
53. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
56. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
58. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. Being nine more than ninety.
63. Lower in esteem.
67. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
71. By hand.
73. An Asian temple.
76. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
77. Not in good physical or mental health.
78. Any of several bog orchids of the genus Arethusa having 1 or 2 showy flowers.
80. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
81. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
82. A feeling of scornful hatred.
83. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
4. Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery).
5. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
6. Provide physical relief, as from pain.
7. Music composed for dancing the pavane.
8. Fiddler crabs.
9. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. A state in the western United States.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Chief port of Yemen.
22. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
24. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
27. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
28. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
29. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
31. Put into a rage.
32. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
35. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
36. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
37. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
39. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. The lean flesh of a saltwater fish found it warm waters (especially Hawaii).
51. Extremely small in scale or scope or capability.
54. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
55. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. A mite of the genus Acarus.
64. A town in central Belgium.
65. Satisfy (thirst).
66. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
68. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
69. Look at with amorous intentions.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
74. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
75. (computer science) Protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network.
79. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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