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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. A cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed.
12. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. (Babylonian) The sky god.
16. A message that departs from the main subject.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. A republic in West Africa.
20. Before noon.
21. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
23. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
24. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
25. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
26. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
27. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.
29. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
31. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
33. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
37. A severe or trying experience.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
43. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
46. Any plant of the genus Erica.
47. 15th President of the United States (1791-1868).
50. Outer bark of the cork oak.
52. One thousand grams.
53. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
54. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
56. African mahogany trees.
57. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
59. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em.
63. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
68. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
72. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
73. Having winglike extensions.
76. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
77. Used of a single unit or thing.
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. The 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
81. A doctor's degree in education.
82. A lack of vitality.
83. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
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1. Very light colored.
2. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
3. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
4. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
5. Being one more than sixty.
6. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
7. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. Pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract.
9. The capital of Eritrea.
10. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
11. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. God of death.
19. Give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role.
22. Bark rich in tannin.
28. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
30. The act of bending low with the limbs close to the body v 1.
32. The act of scanning.
34. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
35. A river in Germany.
36. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
38. Russian country house.
39. A genus of Platalea.
42. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
44. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
45. Being five more than ninety.
48. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
55. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
58. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
60. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
61. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
62. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
64. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
65. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
66. An informal term for a father.
67. An informal term for a father.
69. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
70. Of or being the lowest female voice.
71. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
74. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
75. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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