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1. 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.
4. (British) A disparaging term for an appointee.
12. Strike suddenly and with force.
15. Seed of a pea plant.
16. The art of wine making.
17. Humorously sarcastic or mocking.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. Anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring).
20. A doctor's degree in education.
21. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
23. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
24. The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade).
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
29. A city in northern India.
30. Being of use or service.
33. Mail sent by a sender at one time.
35. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
40. Crowd or pack to capacity.
41. Being nine more than ninety.
42. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
45. Your general store of remembered information.
49. Chief port of Yemen.
50. A state in midwestern United States.
52. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
53. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
54. A tooth having two cusps or points.
57. Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
59. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
60. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
63. The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. The sound made by corvine birds.
67. (South African) A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).
69. A group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers.
71. A loose cloak with a hood.
73. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
74. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
77. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
78. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
79. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Heal or recover.
3. God of death.
4. Deep-dish meat and vegetable pie or a meat stew with dumplings.
5. Towards the side away from the wind.
6. Of or relating to the structure of the body.
7. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
8. Late time of life.
9. A small quantity of anything.
10. Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central and South America and West Indies.
11. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
12. Austrian writer (1881-1942).
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
22. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
25. A shape that sags.
28. Skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls.
31. A salt used especially in baking powder.
32. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
34. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
36. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
37. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
38. In bed.
39. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
43. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
44. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
46. Lacking gonads.
47. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
48. Any of various plants of the genus Pilosella.
51. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
55. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
56. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
58. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Jordan's port.
64. The act of grasping.
66. Slightly open.
68. A Hindu prince or king in India.
70. Used of a single unit or thing.
72. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
75. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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