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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. The capital of Australia.
12. An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. Relating to bees or beekeeping.
17. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
18. A shape that sags.
19. Go away from the surface to which it is adsorbed, of a substance.
20. Australian clover fern.
22. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
25. A narrow way or road.
26. A French abbot.
29. Humble request for help.
30. A Russian river.
32. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
33. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
34. A person to whom money is paid.
37. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
42. Forced to turn and face attackers.
43. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. A strong emotion.
49. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
51. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
52. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
55. 16 ounces.
58. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Bar temporarily.
74. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
75. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
77. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
78. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
79. The father of your father or mother.
80. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
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1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. Of or relating to alga.
4. Marked by a rhythmical cadence.
5. South American cavy.
6. Not final or absolute.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
9. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
12. Relating to or caused by a virus.
13. (of pop groups) Not affiliated with a major recording company n.
14. Type genus of the Phocidae.
21. Wool of the alpaca.
23. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
24. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
27. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
28. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
31. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
35. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
40. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
41. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
44. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
45. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
47. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
56. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia.
60. Make amendments to.
61. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
62. Affect with wonder.
63. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
65. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
66. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
67. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
68. A member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
70. Lie adjacent to another.
72. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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