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1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
5. An executioner who hangs the condemned person.
12. (informal) Roused to anger.
15. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
16. An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. A certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee.
20. A drama set to music.
22. A republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast.
23. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
25. Short and fat.
27. State in northeastern India.
29. Aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet.
32. Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres.
36. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. Having been read.
40. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
41. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. Small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.
48. Lacking motor coordination.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. Being one more than one hundred.
52. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
53. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
54. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
56. With no effort to conceal.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
64. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
67. Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves.
71. A resident of Utah.
74. Fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat.
75. A decree that prohibits something.
76. Of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings.
79. A very light brown.
80. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
81. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
82. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
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1. A royal treasury.
2. Make an etching of.
3. United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association.
4. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
5. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
6. A fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role.
7. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
8. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
9. Type genus of the Moraceae.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. A Mid-Atlantic state.
12. God of death.
13. Chief port of Yemen.
14. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
19. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
21. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
24. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
26. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
28. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
30. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
31. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
33. (Greek mythology) Ancient personification of the sea.
34. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
35. Catch sight of.
39. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
42. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
43. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
47. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. A period of 10 years.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
60. Obvious and dull.
62. A genus of Lamnidae.
63. A Nilotic language.
65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
66. Type genus of the Ranidae.
68. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
69. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
70. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
72. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
73. The money risked on a gamble.
77. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
78. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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