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1. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
4. Lacking general education or knowledge.
12. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A person who makes measurements.
17. Seed of a pea plant.
18. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
20. Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall.
21. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
22. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
24. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
26. Enthusiastic approval.
28. Remote and separate physically or socially.
31. Inability to perceive written words.
34. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
36. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
40. Flesh of any of various freshwater fishes of the families Centrarchidae of North America or Cyprinidae of Europe.
42. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
44. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
45. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
46. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
48. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
50. German historian noted for his history of Rome (1817-1903).
52. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
53. The money risked on a gamble.
54. Place a value on.
57. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
59. Someone unable to adapt to their circumstances.
62. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
63. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
64. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
70. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
71. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
74. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. Very dark black.
78. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
79. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
80. A feeling of intense anger.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Toward the mouth or oral region.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. The striking of one body against another.
5. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
6. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. Showing lack of attention or boredom.
8. A tributary of the Rhine.
9. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
10. Remaining after all deductions.
11. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule.
14. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
19. South American cavy.
23. Informal terms for a mother.
25. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia.
27. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
29. Port city in northwest Portugal.
30. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
32. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
33. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
35. The place where some action occurs.
37. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
38. Informal terms for a mother.
39. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
41. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range.
43. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
47. Testacean rhizopods.
49. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
51. A crime syndicate in the United States.
55. Type genus of the Sialidae.
56. A white trivalent metallic element.
58. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
60. Any plant of the genus Inula.
61. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
65. An informal term for a father.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. Highly excited.
69. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
72. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
73. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
76. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
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