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1. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
4. A protective covering that protects the outside of a building.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
16. Discovered or determined by scientific observation.
17. An enclosed space.
18. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
20. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
25. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
26. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
28. State in northeastern India.
30. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone.
35. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
40. An Asian river between China and Russia.
41. United or combined.
43. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
44. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
47. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
53. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
54. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
60. A disassembled barrel.
62. In bed.
63. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
66. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
68. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. The basic unit of money in China.
75. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
79. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
80. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
81. (informal) Roused to anger.
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1. A royal treasury.
2. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
3. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
4. Something that interests you because it is important or affects you.
5. 16 ounces.
6. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. Go ashore.
8. A gully that is shallower than a ravine.
9. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
10. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
11. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. Horned vipers.
13. English monk and scholar (672-735).
14. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
19. (abbreviated `ha') A unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters).
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. A sudden short attack.
27. An uproarious party.
29. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
31. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
32. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
33. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
34. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
36. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
37. A domain in which something is dominant.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Jordan's port.
42. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
45. Russian country house.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
52. Water frozen in the solid state.
55. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
56. A game played with young children.
57. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
61. To some (great or small) extent.
64. Turned or twisted toward one side.
65. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
67. A town in north central Oklahoma.
69. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
70. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
71. With no effort to conceal.
73. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. An associate degree in nursing.
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