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1. A large number or amount.
5. The capital of Croatia.
11. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
15. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
16. A colorless odorless gas used as fuel.
17. The goddess of the moon.
18. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
19. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
20. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
21. (of persons) Having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks.
23. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
25. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
26. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831).
30. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
32. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
36. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
38. Similar or related in quality or character.
41. A man who courts a woman.
43. The act of scanning.
47. An accountant certified by the state.
48. Type genus of the Majidae.
49. Made of fir or pine.
52. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
54. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
55. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
56. Of or in or relating to the nose.
58. Presence of excess lipids in the blood.
60. (Canadian) A half-breed of white and Indian parentage.
63. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
64. A chemical substance used in fumigation.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Relating to or associated with an empire.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A kind of person.
77. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
78. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
79. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
80. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
81. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. Telephone line (Wide Area Telephone Service).
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. United States writer (born in 1933).
5. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
6. A unit of pressure.
7. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
8. Avatar of Vishnu.
9. Half the width of an em.
10. A worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter.
11. An innocuous or inert medication.
12. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
13. An unforeseen obstacle.
14. Same in identity.
22. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
24. A branch of the Tai languages.
27. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
29. An awkward stupid person.
31. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
34. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture.
35. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
37. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
39. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
40. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
42. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
44. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. A city in northwestern Syria.
50. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
51. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
53. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
57. (British) Inferior (espcially of a country's leadership).
59. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
61. A resort city in western Florida.
62. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
65. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
66. A recognizable kind.
67. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
68. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
69. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
70. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
73. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
74. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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