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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground.
12. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. An accidental happening.
16. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
17. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
18. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
19. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. A large quantity of written matter.
24. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
25. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
27. The square of a body of any size of type.
28. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
29. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
32. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. Ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side.
40. Type genus of the Ranidae.
41. Clothed or adorned with finery.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
48. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
49. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
50. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
52. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
55. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
56. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
63. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
66. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
68. Of or relating to or involving an area.
72. English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992).
73. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
75. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
76. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
77. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).
79. Tag the base runner to get him out.
80. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
81. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
7. Produced by inbreeding.
8. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
9. Type genus of the Amiidae.
10. Depressing in character or appearance.
11. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
12. A used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads.
13. Largest known toad species.
14. A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work.
20. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
22. United States film maker (1897-1991).
26. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
30. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
31. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
34. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
35. 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.
37. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
38. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
39. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
42. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
43. Colloquial British abbreviation.
44. The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something v 1.
47. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
51. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
53. A German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918.
54. State in northeastern India.
58. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
60. Genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha.
61. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
62. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
69. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
70. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
71. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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