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1. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
5. Having facets.
12. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
15. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
16. The phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation.
17. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
20. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
25. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
27. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
29. Genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.
32. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
39. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
40. An exercising weight.
44. Type genus of the Musaceae.
45. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
46. Divisible by two.
48. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
49. An associate degree in nursing.
50. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
52. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
56. Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal.
58. A state in northwestern North America.
59. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
61. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
63. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
65. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
67. Having a woven pattern.
70. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
72. Fish steak usually cut from a halibut.
75. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
76. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
77. Small genus of Asian trees or shrubs.
79. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
80. The cry made by sheep.
81. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Wearing footgear.
2. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
3. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
4. A period of 10 years.
5. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
6. South American cavy.
7. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
8. A republic in northwestern South America.
9. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
10. A colorless odorless gas used as fuel.
11. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
13. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
14. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
22. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
24. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
26. A person who seeks the advice of a lawyer.
28. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
30. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
31. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
33. Any plant of the genus Inula.
34. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
35. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
38. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
41. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
42. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
43. Situated away from an area's coast or border.
47. An industrial city in northern Venezuela.
51. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
53. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
54. A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
57. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
60. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
62. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
73. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
74. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
78. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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