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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit.
17. A boy or man.
18. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
20. Declare invalid.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. Heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs.
30. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
34. Bubble shells.
37. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
41. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
42. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
44. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
49. (Greek mythology) Winged goddess of victory.
50. (Jewish) Roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. 10 grams.
55. A town in central Belgium.
57. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
59. A means of serving.
63. A building where prostitutes are available.
69. By bad luck.
70. A republic in western South America.
73. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
74. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
77. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
78. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
79. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
80. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
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1. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
4. The cry made by sheep.
5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
6. A state in New England.
7. Dearly loved.
8. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
9. A container.
10. A person who is laughing or who laughs easily.
11. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
12. Of or relating to alga.
13. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
14. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
19. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
27. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
29. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
32. Either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms.
33. A notable achievement.
35. A fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
39. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
40. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
43. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
46. Metal shackles.
48. Durable fragrant wood.
51. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
58. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
60. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
61. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
65. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
66. The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event).
67. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
68. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
71. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
72. A small piece of cloth.
75. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
76. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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