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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Relating to or lying near the palate.
12. One millionth of a gram.
15. Made warm or hot.
16. Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal).
20. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
22. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
24. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
28. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
34. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
36. Embarrassingly stingy.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
44. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
48. An informal term for a father.
50. Comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. In operation or operational.
54. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
56. A state in New England.
57. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
60. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
62. Money in the form of bills or coins.
65. The capital of Croatia.
70. (Babylonian) The sky god.
71. A great raja.
75. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
76. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
77. Very generous.
78. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
79. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
80. Indicator consisting of a line at the high-water or low-water limits of the tides.
81. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
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1. Elegant and stylish.
2. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
3. A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.
4. A South American river.
5. Jordan's port.
6. A military dictatorship in North Africa on the Mediterranean.
7. Black tropical American cuckoo.
8. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
9. An important question that is in dispute and must be settled.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. With eagerness.
12. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
13. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
14. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
21. By bad luck.
23. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
26. Usually included in genus Cardamine.
27. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
29. A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull.
32. Raise trivial objections.
33. Any plant of the genus Erica.
35. In bed.
37. A blind god.
38. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
39. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
43. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
49. Little known Kamarupan languages.
51. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
55. (of persons) Freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject.
58. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
59. A group of southern Bantu languages.
61. God of wealth and love.
63. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
64. English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703).
66. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
67. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
68. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
69. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
72. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
73. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
74. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
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