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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. Having a breast or breasts.
12. A tight-fitting headdress.
15. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
16. Receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart.
17. (informal) Of the highest quality.
18. (British) Informal term for information.
19. Of or relating to a septum.
20. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
21. Not only so, but.
23. An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
25. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
26. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
29. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
31. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance.
34. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
37. Offering fun and gaiety.
40. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
43. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
45. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
46. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
48. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
49. The sign language used in the United States.
51. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
52. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
53. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
56. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
59. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
62. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
64. Give out.
68. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
71. Divulge information or secrets.
73. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
75. God of love and erotic desire.
76. The state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more.
78. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
79. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
80. A festival featuring African-American culture.
81. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. Motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.
2. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
3. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
4. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
5. Male roe deer.
6. Liveliness of mind or spirit.
7. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
10. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
11. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
12. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
13. Sour or bitter in taste.
14. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
24. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
27. One of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy.
28. Make less active or intense.
30. A large number or amount.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
35. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
36. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
41. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
42. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
44. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
50. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
54. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
57. A port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world.
58. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
60. Muslim name for God.
61. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
63. African mahogany trees.
65. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
66. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
67. Most important element.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
70. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
72. Inquire about.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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