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1. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
4. The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface.
12. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. Any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera.
17. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. A kind of sedan chair used in India.
20. A grant made by a law court.
22. Jordan's port.
24. A person who handles or caresses in a clumsy or over-familiar manner.
26. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
27. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. Any orchid of the genus Aerides.
42. Any organic compound containing two amino groups.
46. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
47. Largest crested screamer.
49. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
50. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. Cause to be attached.
58. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
60. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
64. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer.
73. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
74. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
75. Island in West Indies.
77. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
78. Take in solid food.
79. Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A coarse term for defecation.
7. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
8. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
9. Not at all or in no way.
10. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. An iconic mental representation.
13. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
14. A genus of Pyralidae.
21. A large number or amount.
23. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
25. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
30. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
32. Capital and largest city of Lebanon.
33. One thousandth of a second.
34. That is to say.
36. The capital of Morocco.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. Half the width of an em.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
40. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
41. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
43. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. A spectator who shouts encouragement.
48. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
51. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
52. An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food.
54. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.
56. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
57. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. Anything that serves as an enticement.
67. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
68. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
71. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
72. Being two more than fifty.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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