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1. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
4. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
12. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
15. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
17. The habitation of wild animals.
18. Free from disturbance.
20. Lamb leg suitable for roasting.
21. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
22. A yellow quartz.
23. A compact mass.
25. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
26. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
27. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A shoe for swimming.
37. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
39. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
41. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
42. Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929).
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
47. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. Property or goods saved from damage or destruction.
52. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
54. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
56. Toward the mouth or oral region.
57. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
59. A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war.
63. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
65. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
68. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. (informal) Of the highest quality.
73. A state of commotion and loud confused noise.
77. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
78. The battle in 1356 in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French.
80. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
81. Towards the side away from the wind.
82. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
83. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. Deeply moved.
2. The capital and largest city of Norway.
3. A boy or man.
4. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
5. A resource.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. Antibacterial agent used especially to treat genitourinary infections.
8. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
9. A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling.
10. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
11. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
12. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
13. Not only so, but.
14. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
19. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
29. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
30. The basic unit of money on Malta.
32. The cry made by sheep.
34. Tell or deposit (information) knowledge.
35. (Akkadian) God ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead.
36. withdraw from an organization or communion.
38. 10 grams.
40. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
43. A branch of the Tai languages.
45. A motley assortment of things.
49. Inquire about.
51. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
53. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
55. An island in the Persian Gulf.
58. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. Excessively fat.
62. Start abruptly.
64. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
66. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
67. A wine bottle made of leather.
69. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
70. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
71. English monk and scholar (672-735).
74. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
75. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
76. 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.
79. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
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