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1. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
5. A Kachinic language.
12. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
17. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people.
26. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
27. A blind god.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
32. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
33. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
37. Inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function.
40. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
42. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
43. A sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast.
45. An alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral.
47. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
48. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
49. A state in midwestern United States.
50. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
51. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
55. Half the width of an em.
57. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
59. A chalcedony with alternating black and white bands.
62. Cause to be embarrassed.
65. Parasitic trees of Indonesia and Malaysia.
69. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
73. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
74. Foolish gibberish.
77. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
78. Quality of being active or spirited or vigorous.
79. Disturb the composure of.
80. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
81. Deprive (infants) of mother's milk.
82. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America.
83. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
5. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
6. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
7. A port in central Norway on Trondheim Fjord.
8. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
9. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
10. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island.
11. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
12. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
13. The state of owing money.
14. Speaking a Slavic language.
19. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
21. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
24. Traveling on horseback.
30. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel.
31. A brass instrument without valves.
34. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
35. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
36. A trademark for a loosely woven cotton fabric that is used to make shirts and underwear.
38. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
39. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
41. The capital of Western Samoa.
44. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
46. A local computer network for communication between computers.
52. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
53. Tag the base runner to get him out.
54. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
56. A positively charged atom.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
61. One or more recordings issued together.
63. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
64. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
68. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
70. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
71. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
72. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
75. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
76. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
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