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1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
4. Weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields.
12. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
15. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
16. Pertaining to or near the sun.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
20. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
21. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
22. A formal expression of praise.
24. Superior Bordeaux type of red wine from California.
26. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
27. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
30. One million periods per second.
32. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
47. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
48. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
53. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
54. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
55. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
56. The father of your father or mother.
58. Little known Kamarupan languages.
61. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
65. A city in east central Texas.
68. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
76. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
77. Danish explorer who explored the North Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741).
79. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
80. Being one more than nine.
81. Struck with especially the open hand.
82. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
2. The content of cognition.
3. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
4. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
5. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. The site of an archeological exploration.
8. Wood of a larch tree.
9. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
10. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
11. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
12. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
13. American dramatist (1928- ).
14. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
19. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
23. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
25. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
35. A unit of pressure.
37. A genus of Platalea.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
40. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
41. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
42. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
43. A quantity of no importance.
45. A genus of Ploceidae.
46. In bed.
49. (British) An abbreviation of pantomime.
50. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
51. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
57. A young unmarried woman.
59. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
60. 1 species.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Type genus of the Bramidae.
66. A French abbot.
67. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
69. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
70. Something causes misery or death.
71. English monk and scholar (672-735).
73. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
74. A small drink of liquor.
78. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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