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1. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
4. Any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. Lacking in light.
16. Branch out like trees.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
20. Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness.
22. The sixth month of the civil year.
24. English essayist (1775-1834).
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. Supply or feed to surfeit.
32. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
36. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
39. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
40. A deep prolonged loud noise.
44. Either extremity of something that has length.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
49. Induce to have sex.
51. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
52. Being one more than two.
53. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
56. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
57. 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.
60. A fraudulent business scheme.
63. Being two more than sixty.
65. A closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure.
67. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
70. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
72. Wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta.
75. Toward the mouth or oral region.
76. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
77. A genus of Hyaenidae.
79. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
80. Having been taken in marriage.
81. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
3. Type genus of the Amiidae.
4. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
5. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
6. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
7. Rotary motion of an object around its own axis.
8. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
9. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
10. A religious sect founded in the United States in 1966.
11. A Mid-Atlantic state.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. God of fire.
14. An informal term for a father.
19. A retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies).
21. Usually Friday night through Sunday.
23. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
26. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. A river in eastern France.
33. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
34. Characterized by a lack of tonus.
35. A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory.
37. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
38. A soft whitish calcite.
41. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
45. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
47. Type genus of Geastraceae.
50. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
54. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.
55. An Asian temple.
58. A farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
64. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
66. Of a kind specified or understood.
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
71. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
73. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
74. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
78. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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