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1. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
4. Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
16. A ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. A building where animals are butchered.
20. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
23. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
25. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
26. On the contrary.
27. Before noon.
29. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
30. Offering fun and gaiety.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
38. Associated with the eardrum.
41. Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees.
44. A town in central Belgium.
45. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
50. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. An electrically charged particle.
53. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
56. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
59. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
60. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
63. Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.
66. The father of your father or mother.
70. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke.
73. A genus of Mustelidae.
74. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
75. (used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.
77. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
78. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
79. A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide.
80. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
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1. Something considered choice to eat.
2. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.
8. A commodity that enters competition with established merchandise.
9. In a resolute manner.
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
11. A port in southwestern Scotland.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
24. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
28. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
31. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
32. Capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal.
33. Serving temporarily especially as a substitute.
35. Type genus of the Gavidae.
36. Remote and separate physically or socially.
37. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. Type genus of the Majidae.
40. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
42. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. Any plant of the genus Erica.
51. Continually complaining or faultfinding.
54. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
55. Liquid excretory product.
57. An argument opposed to a proposal.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
61. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
62. A person who gives a name or names.
64. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
65. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
67. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
71. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
72. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
76. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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