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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. The largest of Jupiter's satellites.
12. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
15. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
16. Youthful appearance in an old person.
17. An erratic deflection from an intended course.
18. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
19. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
20. Cause to be bitter or resentful.
22. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
24. A very light brown.
26. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
27. A member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California.
29. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
34. A light touch or stroke.
35. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. A mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air.
42. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
44. Be teeming, be abuzz.
45. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
47. A state in New England.
48. Type genus of the Muridae.
49. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
50. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
52. A telegram sent abroad.
54. A large quantity of written matter.
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
58. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
59. The capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti.
62. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
64. A state in northwestern North America.
66. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
68. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
72. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
76. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
77. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. The month following March and preceding May.
83. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
84. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
85. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
86. City in central Iran.
87. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
2. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
3. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
4. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A desert in southern Israel.
7. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
8. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
9. The basic monetary unit of Portugal.
10. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. City in Sudan.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
25. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
30. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
31. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
33. A daughter of your brother or sister.
36. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
37. Military barracks in a garrison town.
39. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
40. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
41. Small songbirds resembling larks.
43. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
46. Not widely known.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. An amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine.
60. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
63. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
65. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
67. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
69. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
70. The basic unit of money on Malta.
71. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
73. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
74. An informal term for a father.
75. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
78. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
79. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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