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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color.
12. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
15. An accidental happening.
16. Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC).
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
19. Clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures.
20. Enthusiastic approval.
22. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
24. Being one more than ten.
25. Avatar of Vishnu.
26. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
29. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
37. Type genus of the Caryocaraceae.
40. Black tropical American cuckoo.
41. British composer (1857-1934).
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
45. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
47. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
48. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
49. Disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals.
53. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
54. Situated in front of the anus.
57. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
60. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
62. A medium for oil-paints.
64. Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. A depression scratched or carved into a surface.
73. A negative.
74. Informal terms for a mother.
75. During the intervening time.
76. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
77. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.
5. A drama set to music.
6. A stringed instrument of India.
7. Singing jazz.
8. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
9. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
10. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
14. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
21. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
23. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
27. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
28. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
30. A deep bow.
31. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
32. (informal) Exceptionally good.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
35. Administer an oil or ointment to.
36. Being ten more than eighty.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
44. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
46. Slow or shallow breathing.
50. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
51. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
52. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
55. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
56. Great coolness and composure under strain.
58. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
59. (British) Any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low).
61. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
63. Very dark black.
65. Being three more than fifty.
66. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
67. Characteristic of false pride.
68. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
71. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
72. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
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