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1. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
11. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. Somewhat large.
17. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
18. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
19. Scratch and scrimp.
20. God of wealth and love.
21. Not only so, but.
23. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
25. The sixth month of the civil year.
26. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
28. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
30. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
32. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
36. Any competition.
40. Type genus of the Nepidae.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
46. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
47. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
48. (prefix) Half or partial.
49. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
52. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
54. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
55. Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
59. Half the width of an em.
60. (informal) Of the highest quality.
61. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
63. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
67. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
70. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
72. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
75. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
76. Saber-toothed tigers.
79. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
80. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
81. The levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa).
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
2. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
3. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
4. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
5. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
6. Capable of making an error.
7. Moving quickly and lightly.
8. Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience.
9. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
10. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
11. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
12. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
13. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
14. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
22. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
24. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
27. A state in the eastern United States.
29. A form of address for a man.
31. A deep bow.
33. A populous province in northeastern China.
34. Light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars.
35. Combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground.
37. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
38. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
44. Congenital absence of an arm or leg.
45. A genus of Ploceidae.
50. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
51. A place where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
53. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
56. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
57. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
58. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
64. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
65. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
66. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
71. The sign language used in the United States.
73. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
78. An uproarious party.
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