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1. A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance).
5. South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
15. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
16. American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress.
17. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
18. Loose or flaccid body fat.
19. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
20. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
22. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
24. Having the back and shoulders rounded.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
31. A condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin).
35. Black tropical American cuckoo.
36. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
39. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
40. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
41. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
46. A unit of pain intensity.
47. A particular environment or walk of life.
48. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
50. A storyteller in West Africa.
52. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
54. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
56. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
57. Pour out, of liquids.
59. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
61. A French abbot.
64. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
66. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
69. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
73. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
74. Qualified for by right according to law.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
80. The state capital of South Australia.
81. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
82. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
83. English diplomat and author (1886-1968).
84. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
4. 1 species.
5. Concluding state of pregnancy.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
8. A book of the New Testament.
9. German mathematician (1882-1935).
10. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
11. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
12. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
13. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
14. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
21. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
23. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
25. A worker who oils engines or machinery.
29. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
30. Treated with oil.
32. Accuse formally of a crime.
33. Used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant.
34. A thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
37. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
38. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. In truth (often tends to intensify).
43. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
51. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
53. A former Turkish term of respect.
55. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
58. Conforming to truth.
60. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
62. Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast.
63. East Indian annual erect herb.
65. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
67. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
70. Framework for holding objects.
71. A slender double-reed instrument.
72. A quantity of no importance.
75. A police officer who investigates crimes.
76. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
77. The capital and largest city of Japan.
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