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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A bottle with a stopper.
12. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A house for storing ice.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Oblong cream puff.
20. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
21. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
23. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
25. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
26. An elaborate song for solo voice.
28. Desire strongly or persistently.
31. Of or relating to the heart.
34. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
38. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
40. Avoiding waste.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
44. Related on the mother's side.
45. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
48. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
52. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
53. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
55. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
58. A slight wind (usually refreshing).
61. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
66. Overgrown with ivy.
70. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
71. A person active in party politics.
72. Being one more than ten.
74. Jordan's port.
75. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
76. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
78. (British) Your grandmother.
79. An affirmative.
80. The act of reaching out.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
4. United States film actress (born in Germany) who made many films with Josef von Sternberg and later was a successful cabaret star (1901-1992).
5. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
6. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. Full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds.
9. Large deep serving dish with a cover.
10. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
11. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
12. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
13. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
14. An informal term for a father.
22. A city in Veneto.
24. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
29. Not often.
30. A group of southern Bantu languages.
32. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
33. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
35. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
36. (British) A local tax on property (usually used in the plural).
37. Very attentive or observant.
39. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
42. An Asian river between China and Russia.
43. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
46. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
47. An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs.
50. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
54. Music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
57. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
59. Call forth.
60. Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.
62. An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718).
63. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
68. Report or maintain.
69. Being nothing more than specified.
73. The basic unit of money in Romania.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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