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1. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
4. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
16. A plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers.
17. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
18. The capital of Lesotho.
20. The basic unit of money in Mongolia.
22. A mute for a violin.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. God of the Underworld.
26. A plain plinth that supports a wall.
29. After noon.
31. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
32. A populous province in northeastern China.
36. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
38. Being nine more than ninety.
39. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.
41. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
42. Either extremity of something that has length.
45. Having made preparations.
47. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
50. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
51. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
52. The process of leaching.
53. Providing enjoyment.
54. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
56. A wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay.
59. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
62. An associate degree in applied science.
65. An artificial language.
68. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
74. Noisy quarrel.
75. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
78. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
79. A doctor's degree in education.
80. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
81. Set down according to a plan.
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1. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
2. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
3. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
4. Stubbornly resistant to change or improvement.
5. A constellation in the Milky Way near Cygnus.
6. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. Device for converting sound waves into electrical energy.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
10. Largest known toad species.
11. A human limb.
12. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
13. Affectedly dainty or refined.
14. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
19. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.
21. Bleeding into the interior chamber of the eye.
23. Water scorpions.
27. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. Large bottle with a short narrow neck.
30. 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.
33. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
34. Characterized by iniquity.
35. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
37. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
40. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
43. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
44. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
46. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
48. Type genus of the Dasyatidae.
49. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
58. French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923).
63. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
64. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
66. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
67. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s.
69. An elaborate song for solo voice.
70. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
71. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
76. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
77. The eleventh month of the civil year.
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