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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
12. Top part of an apron.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Annual and perennial herbs of damp habitats.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound.
19. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
24. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
26. The sixth month of the civil year.
28. A meter for measuring electrical resistance in ohms.
31. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
33. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
34. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
36. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
40. Conforming to truth.
41. A government order imposing a trade barrier.
44. Being one more than forty.
45. Of or relating to or characteristic of Estonia or its people or language.
48. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
51. A change downward.
52. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
53. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
55. A three-tone Chadic language.
56. Disposed of as useless.
59. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.
62. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
63. A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories.
66. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
70. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
72. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. (used informally) Very small.
76. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
78. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
79. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
80. More of the same adv.
81. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
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1. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
4. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
7. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
8. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
9. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
10. Great coolness and composure under strain.
11. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
12. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
13. Complacently or inanely foolish.
14. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
20. Think moodily or anxiously about something.
23. Accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall.
29. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
30. A state in New England.
32. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.
35. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
37. Any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical.
38. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
39. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
42. A statement of fundamental facts or principles.
43. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
47. Edible viscera of a butchered animal.
49. Before noon.
50. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
54. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
57. Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy.
58. Cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful.
60. cause to accept or become hardened to.
61. City in Sudan.
64. Time during which some action is awaited.
65. A small but appreciable amount.
67. Having the slant of a bevel.
68. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
69. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
71. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
73. (Irish) The sea personified.
77. A white trivalent metallic element.
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