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1. A quantity of money.
4. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
12. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
17. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
20. A person in desperate straits.
21. Wood of a sumac.
23. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
25. An informal term for a father.
26. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
27. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
31. Unwisely talking too much.
37. Avatar of Vishnu.
39. Obtained from various tropical plants.
40. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
41. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
43. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. A state in southeastern United States.
48. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
51. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. Formed or gathered into a ball.
57. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
58. Parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles.
60. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
63. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
64. Set down according to a plan.
66. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
72. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
75. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
76. A water-resistant coat.
79. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
80. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
81. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
82. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
83. An associate degree in applied science.
84. Brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
2. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
3. Covered with paving material.
4. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
5. Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal.
6. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
7. The habitation of wild animals.
8. A city in northwestern Syria.
9. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
12. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
13. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
14. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
19. Jordan's port.
22. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
24. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
28. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
29. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
30. Before noon.
32. An East Indian sailor.
33. In a state of sleep.
34. (British informal) Malodorous.
35. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
36. Having a common axis.
38. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
42. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
49. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
50. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
52. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
54. Lacking a bib.
56. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
59. United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951).
61. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
65. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
67. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. A genus of Mustelidae.
70. (prefix) Outside or outer.
71. A farm building for housing poultry.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. God of love and erotic desire.
77. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
78. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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