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1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
4. A male slave.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. The sixth day of the week.
16. Hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A 10% solution of formaldehyde in water.
20. Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal.
21. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
22. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. A Russian river.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
44. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
49. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
50. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
51. A univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene.
52. Lower in esteem.
56. A French abbot.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. A secret store of valuables or money.
62. Being one more than one.
63. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
65. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
68. Having a woven pattern.
71. Type genus of the Annonaceae.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. Be teeming, be abuzz.
76. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
78. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
79. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
80. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
2. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
3. Someone new to a field or activity.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. A state in southeastern United States.
7. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas.
8. Complete and without restriction or qualification.
9. A person of mean disposition.
10. State in northeastern India.
11. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Divulge information or secrets.
14. An informal term for a father.
19. (Judaism) A candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation.
24. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
27. (informal) Roused to anger.
28. A bachelor's degree in religion.
29. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
32. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
33. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
34. (of eggs) No longer edible.
36. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
37. Made of or covered with wax.
38. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
41. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
42. An island of central Hawaii.
43. United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941).
47. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
48. The mints.
53. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
54. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
55. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
57. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
60. Having or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone.
61. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
64. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
66. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
67. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
72. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
73. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
77. Being nine more than forty.
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