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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
11. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
15. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
16. Having a price assigned or having a price as specified.
17. A vigorous blow.
18. A genus of European owls.
19. Given or having a specified name.
21. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
23. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
25. An argument opposed to a proposal.
26. A sock that reaches just above the ankle.
28. A cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte).
30. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
31. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
32. An enclosed space.
35. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
38. Take away the weapons from.
41. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
43. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
46. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
47. Very reluctant to give out information.
49. Comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae.
51. A contorted facial expression.
52. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
53. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
54. A language group of the Hokan family.
57. A light touch or stroke.
59. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
67. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
74. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
75. Any orchid of the genus Aerides.
77. A person who makes use of a thing.
78. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
79. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
80. The quality of a person's voice.
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1. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
2. A bowl-shaped vessel.
3. A short light metallic sound.
4. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention.
5. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
6. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
7. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
8. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. A usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.).
13. A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling.
14. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
20. A horse-drawn carriage having four wheels.
22. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
24. Tag the base runner to get him out.
27. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
29. Distant but within sight.
33. Earlier a god.
34. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
36. Produced by a manufacturing process.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Female ruff v 1.
40. (physics) Of or pertaining to a meson.
42. A large fleet.
44. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
45. Used of locations.
48. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
50. Not based on fact.
55. A group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia.
56. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
58. A drill for penetrating rock.
60. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
61. On the move.
63. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. Anything that serves as an enticement.
66. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
68. Chief port of Yemen.
69. Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column.
71. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
72. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
76. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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