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1. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
4. A city in central Myanmar north of Rangoon.
12. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
15. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
16. Consider as ideal.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
20. A Nilotic language.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Muslim name for God.
24. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
26. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
28. Hardened sugary exudation of various trees.
30. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
33. A member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council).
37. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
39. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
40. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
41. A state in New England.
42. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
45. A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable.
46. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
48. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. The commonest type of solidified lava.
52. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
53. Type genus of the Phocidae.
55. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
56. One million periods per second.
58. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
61. Prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy (1756-1791).
65. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
66. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
70. Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677).
73. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
74. Of southern Europe.
75. A member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon.
78. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
79. A small drink.
80. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
81. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
82. One or some or every or all without specification.
83. East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry.
84. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
4. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
5. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
6. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
9. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
10. Inquire about.
11. A person with a strong desire for something.
12. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
13. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
14. The act of scanning.
19. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
23. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
25. Cause to suffer.
27. A waiter at a drive-in restaurant.
29. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
32. Supported and operated by the government of a state.
34. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
35. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
36. Marked by smartness in dress and manners.
38. Great coolness and composure under strain.
43. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
44. A Russian river.
47. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
49. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. 1 species.
57. Any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
62. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
63. Quick and energetic.
64. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
67. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
71. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
72. By bad luck.
76. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
77. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
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