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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Being wet with perspiration.
12. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. The seventh month of the civil year.
20. A person who makes use of a thing.
22. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
26. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
28. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
31. Australian rat kangaroos.
33. (architecture) Not arcuate.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
40. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
41. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
45. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
46. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
49. English monk and scholar (672-735).
51. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
53. The act of scanning.
54. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
55. A midwestern state on the Great Plains.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
61. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
64. Fastened with stitches.
66. The elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object.
69. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
73. Worship given to God alone.
75. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
76. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
77. Of or relating to the enteron.
79. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
80. The quantity contained in a keg.
81. A conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic "Reynard the Fox".
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
2. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
3. A person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. Capital of Namibia in the center of the country.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
8. One of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs.
9. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
10. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
11. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. Heal or recover.
13. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
14. Offering fun and gaiety.
19. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
21. Something causes misery or death.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. A human limb.
29. A large fleet.
30. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
32. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter.
34. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
35. Covered with paving material.
36. An extra or repeated performance.
39. Squash bugs.
43. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
47. Jostling with the elbows.
48. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
50. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
52. A maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses.
56. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
57. Making great mental demands.
59. By bad luck.
62. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
63. Indigo bush.
65. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
67. English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723).
68. The basic unit of money on Malta.
70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
71. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
74. Used of a single unit or thing.
78. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
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