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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A merchant who sells goods at retail.
17. Of southern Europe.
18. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
20. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
21. (British) Your grandmother.
22. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
24. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
26. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
27. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
29. Avatar of Vishnu.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
32. A genus of Ploceidae.
40. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. An enclosed space.
46. Liable to sin.
49. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
51. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
52. American dramatist (1928- ).
54. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
55. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
57. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
58. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
59. Cut or impressed into a surface.
63. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
66. Staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Axis of a compound leaf or compound inflorescence.
75. Greek mythology.
76. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. Make lighter or brighter.
79. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
80. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
81. Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis.
82. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
2. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
3. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
4. A male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel.
5. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
8. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
9. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
10. A sailing vessel with two masts.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
14. Transient cessation of respiration.
19. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
23. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
25. (informal) Exceptionally good.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
33. Of or relating to or involving an area.
34. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
37. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
38. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
39. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals.
44. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
47. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
48. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
50. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
53. The time you go to bed.
56. Type genus of the Otariidae.
60. A soft whitish calcite.
61. A person forced to flee from home or country.
62. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
64. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
65. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
67. Goddess of fertility.
68. The capital of Western Samoa.
69. Try to manage without help.
70. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
73. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
74. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century.
78. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
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