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1. A period of time spent sleeping.
4. Elder brother of Krishna.
12. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
17. Any thick messy substance.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
20. 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.
22. A severe or trying experience.
24. English monk and scholar (672-735).
26. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
27. The Latin name for England.
28. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
33. Related on the mother's side.
36. Relating to the condition of immunity.
40. Related to or characteristic of or written in Amharic.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
43. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
46. Escape, either physically or mentally.
47. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
48. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
49. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
57. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
60. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
61. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
62. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
67. Uttering in an irritated tone.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
75. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
76. Being two more than fifty.
77. Includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia.
79. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
80. Water frozen in the solid state.
81. Used of automobiles.
82. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. A genus of Ploceidae.
4. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
5. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
6. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
7. Jordan's port.
8. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
9. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
10. Informal terms for a mother.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
13. Capital and largest city of Italy.
14. A deep prolonged loud noise.
21. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
23. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
25. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
29. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
31. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
34. Some point in the air.
35. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
37. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
38. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
41. Father of the storm gods Marut.
44. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
45. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
51. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. Of or involving the uterus.
56. The striking of one body against another.
58. A card game for 2 players.
63. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
64. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
69. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
70. Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone.
73. A Nilotic language.
74. In or of the month preceding the present one.
78. A public promotion of some product or service.
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