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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. Of the western part of a city.
12. (British) Your grandmother.
15. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
16. The interior curve of an arch.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A liquid solution that results from elution.
20. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
22. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
26. An informal term for a father.
27. Small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates.
29. In bed.
31. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
39. Of the blackest black.
41. A reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction.
43. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor.
49. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
51. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
52. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
53. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
55. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
56. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
63. A monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America.
66. Type genus of the Rhamnaceae.
71. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
76. Octopuses and paper nautilus.
78. Not in good physical or mental health.
79. Not reflecting light.
80. A great raja.
81. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.
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1. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964).
5. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
6. A detailed critical inspection.
7. A distinguishing feature of one's personal nature.
8. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
9. The content of cognition.
10. An uproarious party.
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
13. A city in northwestern Syria.
14. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
21. South American cavy.
23. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A Hindu prince or king in India.
30. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
32. South American herb with sticky glandular foliage.
33. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
37. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
40. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
42. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
45. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
46. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
48. A communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc.
50. Trees native to East Indies having pinnate leaves.
54. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
57. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
59. The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
60. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
61. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
65. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
67. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
68. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
69. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
70. Containing or filled with salt.
72. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
73. The month following March and preceding May.
77. The fifth day of the week.
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