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1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
4. An associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship).
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
15. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
16. Of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g..
17. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. A person whose occupation is making and altering garments.
20. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
21. A soft whitish calcite.
23. Not final or absolute.
24. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
29. United States singer and film actor (1915-1998).
32. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
35. Worthless material that is discarded.
36. An onerous or difficult concern.
37. A lump on the body caused by a blow.
40. European herb resembling vetch.
43. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. A Spanish river.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
51. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
53. A closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it.
55. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
56. English philologist (1835-1912).
58. Player acts out a phrase for others to guess.
61. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
63. In an unnatural eery manner.
64. A general anesthetic (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly.
67. Flatter in an obsequious manner.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Russian choreographer (1834-1905).
74. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
75. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
81. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
3. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
4. Any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes.
5. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
6. A German machine gun.
7. Silkworm moths.
8. A young woman.
9. A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination.
10. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
11. An antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine.
12. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
13. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
14. Jordan's port.
22. The sacred city of Lamaism.
25. Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981).
28. Take in, also metaphorically.
30. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
31. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
33. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
34. Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities.
38. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
39. Flesh of large European flatfish.
41. Remove from memory or existence.
42. (Greek mythology) Wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
48. An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity.
49. A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally).
50. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
52. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
54. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
57. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
59. Report or maintain.
60. Of or relating to a dyad or based on two.
62. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail.
65. Very dark black.
66. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
68. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
69. (prefix) Outside or outer.
72. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
73. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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