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1. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
4. (Greek Mythology) A famous mythical Greek hero.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
17. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
20. Liquid excretory product.
21. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.
23. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
25. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
26. Annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia.
27. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
29. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
31. A professional killer who uses a gun.
34. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
35. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
36. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
39. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
42. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
43. Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals.
47. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
48. Cut the head of.
50. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
52. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
56. A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information.
57. The capital of Australia.
61. Any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103.
62. The recipient of funds or other benefits.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
64. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
65. Something that causes irritation and annoyance.
71. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
72. French mime famous for his sad-faced clown (born in 1923).
75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
76. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
77. The domain controlled by an emir.
78. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
79. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
80. Do over, as of (part of) a house.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
4. The wood of an African obeche tree.
5. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
6. Informal terms for the mouth.
7. The universal time coordinated time on board the spacecraft.
8. English philologist (1835-1912).
9. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
10. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
11. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
13. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
14. Common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally.
19. Any of a group of proteases that mediate apoptosis.
22. A narrow way or road.
24. Evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement.
28. Stubbornly unyielding.
30. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
32. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
33. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
37. Genus of African timber trees.
38. A city in northwestern Syria.
40. Right-hand page.
41. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
44. Natural qualities or talents.
45. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
46. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
49. A railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling.
51. A nonenterprising person who is not paying his way.
53. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
58. Cooked in hot water.
59. A squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit.
60. Assign a new name to.
66. Not widely known.
67. Thin and fit.
68. A substance that can be burned to provide heat or power.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
74. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
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