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1. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
4. A resident of Alabama.
12. A rapid bustling commotion.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. The angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself.
17. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
18. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
19. A human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. (informal) The best of its kind n.
24. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
25. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
28. Of inferior or mixed breed.
29. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
30. Top part of an apron.
33. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
36. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
37. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
41. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
43. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
50. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
51. Jordan's port.
53. The capital and largest city of Chad.
57. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
58. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
61. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941).
64. Using more words than necessary.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
72. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
74. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
76. The products of human creativity.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
81. Towards the side away from the wind.
82. City in central Iran.
83. A master's degree in education.
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1. A member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. English Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored by Charles I (1595-1639).
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
6. On, to, or at the top.
7. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
8. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
9. A woman's loose unbelted dress.
10. Accumulate on the surface.
11. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
12. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
13. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
14. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
20. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
22. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
26. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. Fallow deer.
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
35. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
38. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
39. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
45. Having or causing a whirling sensation.
46. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
49. A size of paper used especially in Britain.
52. The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
56. The cry made by sheep.
59. A shape that spreads outward.
60. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
63. A garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle).
65. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
66. God of death.
68. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
69. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
70. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
73. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
79. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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