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1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
12. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Australian wild horse.
17. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
18. The capital of Nationalist China.
20. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
21. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
22. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
23. Fallow deer.
26. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
28. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord.
34. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
35. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
36. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
37. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
39. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
43. A human being.
46. Small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Being one more than one hundred.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. Of an instrument of certain death.
54. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
57. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
59. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
61. A soft silvery metallic element.
63. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
65. A dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
75. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
76. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. A small piece of cloth.
80. Pertaining to or near the sun.
82. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
83. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
84. A great raja.
85. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
5. A female domestic.
6. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
7. A contorted facial expression.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
13. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
14. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
19. A member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma.
24. Mix up or confuse.
25. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
32. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
33. One of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital).
38. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
40. Not still wet.
41. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
42. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
44. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. World's longest river (4187 miles).
47. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
50. 1 species.
53. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
55. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
62. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. Especially one side of a leaf.
68. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
70. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
72. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
73. God of love and erotic desire.
74. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
77. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
81. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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