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1. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
4. Characterized by friendship and good will.
12. Lacking in light.
15. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
16. A floor covering.
17. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
18. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
20. Flowing in drops.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. Exultantly proud and joyful.
27. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
30. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
31. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
34. A restless seeker after amusement or social companionship.
39. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
42. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
43. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
45. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
46. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
47. Extremely robust.
48. In bed.
50. The force of workers available.
53. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
55. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
58. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
63. Devoted to a cause or party.
69. Become imbued.
70. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
72. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
73. An awkward stupid person.
74. Of a cask or barrel.
77. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
78. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
79. A festival featuring African-American culture.
80. Inquire about.
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1. A quantity of no importance.
2. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
3. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
4. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
5. An unwholesome atmosphere.
6. Not out.
7. Ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
10. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
11. Tropical African herbs.
12. The state of owing money.
13. A small island.
14. (archaic) A fitting reward.
19. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
21. Found along western Atlantic coast.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
28. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
29. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. Type genus of the Gerreidae.
33. A negatively charged atom.
35. Any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae.
36. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
37. Of or relating to the uvea of the eye.
38. Chinese Taoist sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but also incorporating pantheism and sorcery.
40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
41. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
44. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
49. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
52. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
54. Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically.
56. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
57. A New England state.
59. Malicious burning to destroy property.
60. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
61. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
62. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
64. Little known Kamarupan languages.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. French novelist and critic.
67. Armor plate that protects the chest.
68. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
71. An argument opposed to a proposal.
75. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
76. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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