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1. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
4. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
15. (Babylonian) The sky god.
16. Having a single pole.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. Losing color.
19. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
22. A game played with playing cards.
24. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
26. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
30. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
32. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
33. 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.
34. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. With rapid movements.
43. Of or at or relating to an anode.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. A negative.
50. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
52. A person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place.
54. Long tubular cell peculiar to xylem.
56. A resource.
57. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
58. A town in southwestern Idaho.
61. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932).
68. Exultantly proud and joyful.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
73. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
76. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
77. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
81. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
82. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
83. American novelist (1909-1955).
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1. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
2. Type genus of the Anatidae.
3. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
4. A town in east central Indiana.
5. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
6. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
7. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
8. The act of flipping a coin.
9. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
10. The cry made by sheep.
11. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
23. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
25. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
27. A town in north central Oklahoma.
28. The square of a body of any size of type.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
35. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
36. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
37. United States psychologist noted for his work in child development (1880-1961).
39. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
40. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
45. A woman of refinement.
46. A large number or amount.
47. Fly a plane.
51. Pearl oysters.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
59. 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.
60. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
62. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap.
65. Late time of life.
67. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
69. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
70. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
71. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
74. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
75. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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