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1. A human limb.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
17. The sound made by corvine birds.
18. The content of cognition.
20. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
21. English monk and scholar (672-735).
23. A motley assortment of things.
25. Black tropical American cuckoo.
26. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
27. Make amends for.
28. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
30. Squash bugs.
37. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
38. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
39. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
41. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
43. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
45. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
46. A trap for birds or small mammals.
48. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
49. The twelfth month of the civil year.
50. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
52. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
55. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
56. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
58. A cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea.
60. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
62. The event of something burning (often destructive).
63. Type genus of the Physeteridae.
67. Of or relating to the aorta.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
72. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
75. Poor enough to need help from others.
76. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
77. A swaggering show of courage.
79. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
80. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
81. (Greek) A benevolent spirit.
82. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
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1. The habitation of wild animals.
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
4. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. Short and fat.
6. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
7. Avatar of Vishnu.
8. Very dark black.
9. A mountain peak in central Washington.
10. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
11. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
12. The place where some action occurs.
13. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
14. (informal) A bunch.
19. Lower in esteem.
22. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. Not only so, but.
31. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
32. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
34. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
35. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
36. (trademark) An antacid.
40. A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.
42. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. The brightly colored garments of a jockey.
51. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
53. English essayist (1775-1834).
54. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
57. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
59. Read anew.
61. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.
64. One who works hard at boring tasks.
65. Noisy talk.
66. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
68. A three-tone Chadic language.
69. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
70. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
73. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
74. The capital and largest city of Japan.
78. In operation or operational.
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