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1. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
4. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. Large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
20. A ballplayer who is batting.
22. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
23. A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. One million periods per second.
29. Of or relating to or obtained from amber.
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. First in order of importance.
36. A coagulated liquid resembling milk curd.
39. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
40. Indigo bush.
41. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
42. Come into existence.
45. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
46. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
48. Lower someone's spirits.
51. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
52. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
54. With anxiety or apprehension.
55. A state in northwestern North America.
57. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
59. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
64. The sixth month of the civil year.
66. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
68. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
72. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
73. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Chief port of Yemen.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
80. Not easy.
81. Extreme mental retardation.
82. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
4. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
7. (biology) Relating to cells.
8. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
9. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
10. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
11. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
12. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
13. Divulge information or secrets.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
19. Butterfly rays.
21. The brightest star in Virgo.
24. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
25. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
28. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927).
30. The capital of Moldova.
31. Someone who perpetrates wrongdoing.
33. Having a woven pattern.
34. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
37. Spread negative information about.
38. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
43. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
44. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
47. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
49. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
50. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
53. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
56. A semiautomatic rifle.
58. Alloy of copper and tin and zinc.
60. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
63. An island of central Hawaii.
65. An informal term for a father.
67. A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth.
69. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
70. Very dark black.
71. A quantity of no importance.
74. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
78. The square of a body of any size of type.
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