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1. A (usually) large and scholarly book.
5. Not in a specified place physically or mentally.
11. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
15. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
16. Boas and pythons.
17. On or toward the lee.
18. Long and thin and often limp.
19. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
21. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
23. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
24. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
25. An accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing.
27. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
28. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
31. Fiddler crabs.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
38. Not worth using.
43. A stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors.
45. A book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things.
48. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
50. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
51. Freetail bats.
53. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. The cry made by sheep.
56. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
59. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
60. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
64. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
68. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.
72. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
73. (British) A person who has the right to be considered legally a British citizen (by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent).
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
78. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
79. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
80. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
81. A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea.
82. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. Rounded like an egg.
3. An island northwest of Wales.
4. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
7. Estrangement from god.
8. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
9. A quantity of no importance.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
12. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
13. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
14. The short weak cry of a young bird.
20. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
22. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
26. Teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately).
29. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
30. To fix or set securely or deeply.
32. Being one more than one hundred.
33. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities.
36. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
39. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
40. Employed in accomplishing something.
41. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
42. A sudden quick movement.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
47. Genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the Western Hemisphere.
52. A Hindu prince or king in India.
57. Type genus of the Otariidae.
58. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
61. Of great mass.
62. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
63. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
65. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
66. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
67. Castrate, used with animals.
69. As if new.
70. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
71. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
74. (Babylonian) The sky god.
75. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
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