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1. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
4. A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).
12. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. A pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
24. The residue that remains when something is burned.
25. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
27. Of or like a cecum.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A formation of people or things one beside another.
34. A fibrous amphibole.
37. Painted beauty and red admiral.
39. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
40. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
50. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
51. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
52. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
53. A milkshake made with malt powder.
54. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
57. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
59. Extremely pleasing.
61. A city in east central Texas.
66. Type genus of the Gavidae.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
75. A small lump or protuberance.
76. An act of being a tenant or occupant.
77. Encountered generally especially at the present time.
78. 10 grams.
79. First in rank or degree.
80. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
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1. A compact mass.
2. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
3. A unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units.
4. Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
5. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
7. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
10. An informal term for a father.
11. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
12. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element.
13. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
14. A vigorous blow.
19. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
23. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
26. In or of the present month.
28. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
29. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
30. Wild ginger.
32. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
35. In an open way.
36. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
38. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
42. A slight indication.
43. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
44. Wearing or provided with clothing.
46. Goods carried by a large vehicle.
47. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
55. A farmhand hired to remove weeds.
56. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
60. An oil port in southern Iraq.
62. Largest known toad species.
63. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
64. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
65. Belonging to some prior time.
67. Characteristic of false pride.
68. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
69. Chief port of Yemen.
71. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
72. Used of a single unit or thing.
73. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
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