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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
5. A person who practices masturbation.
12. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
15. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
16. A man who serves as a sailor.
17. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
18. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
19. A city in central Texas.
20. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
21. Either of two phenols derived from naphthalene.
23. A formal expression of praise.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
32. Inflammation of the gums.
34. Informal terms for a meal.
35. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
39. (British informal) An airless smoky smelly atmosphere.
40. A New England state.
42. Having a heading or course in a certain direction.
43. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
46. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
48. Used in combination to denote the middle.
49. City in the northern Dominican Republic.
51. (usually plural) A destructive action.
54. Engross (oneself) fully.
56. Punished by the imposition of a penalty.
57. The dead body of a human being.
60. Armor plate that protects the hip and thigh.
63. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
64. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
65. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
69. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
71. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
73. The cry made by sheep.
74. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. A container.
78. The fatty flesh of eel.
79. Segmented worms.
80. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
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1. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
4. Covered with paving material.
5. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
6. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
7. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
9. Not exact.
10. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
11. Timid by nature or revealing timidity.
12. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
13. Cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits.
14. Reflecting light.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
24. Squash bugs.
26. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
27. Commercially important fish of the North American Pacific coast.
29. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
30. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
33. A white trivalent metallic element.
36. Someone whose business is advertising.
37. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
38. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
41. A city in southeastern South Korea.
44. Extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia).
45. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
47. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778).
50. How long something has existed.
52. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
53. A way of regarding situations or topics etc..
55. A conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends.
58. Of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive n 1.
59. Of or relating to the kidneys.
61. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
62. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
66. A French abbot.
67. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
68. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
70. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. An associate degree in nursing.
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