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1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. A long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume.
12. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. The dialect of Portuguese (sometimes regarded as a dialect of Spanish) spoken in Galicia northwestern Spain.
17. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
18. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
19. Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950).
20. Indigo bush.
22. Squash bugs.
24. Flat tableland with steep edges.
25. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
26. A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England.
28. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
30. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
32. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
38. A master's degree in business.
39. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
40. Of or relating to herbs.
42. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
45. Expel, as of gases and odors.
46. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
48. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
49. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
51. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
54. Oil palms.
56. Treelike tropical Asian herbs.
58. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
60. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
61. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Informal terms for a mother.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
72. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. A person whose head is bald.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
81. A great raja.
82. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
4. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. Reflecting gloom.
7. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
8. (ecology) The process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.
9. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
10. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
11. Either extremity of something that has length.
12. A room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun.
13. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
14. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
21. Traveling on horseback.
23. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
27. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
29. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
31. A small drum with one head of soft calfskin.
33. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
34. The principal dish of a meal.
36. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
37. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
41. A genus of Platalea.
43. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
44. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic.
47. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
53. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
55. A state in north central United States.
57. A large fleet.
59. A genus of Ploceidae.
62. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
63. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
65. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
67. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
70. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
71. The cry made by sheep.
73. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
74. 10 grams.
77. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
78. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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