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1. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
4. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
11. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Composed of animal fat.
17. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
18. A flexible container with a single opening.
19. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
20. A small node.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. The person or thing chosen or selected.
24. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
25. 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.
26. Void of thought or knowledge.
28. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
30. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
33. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
42. A person who gains weight.
46. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
47. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
49. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
52. An official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector.
55. Show submission or fear.
56. A deep bow.
58. A splendid assemblage (especially of famous people).
59. The quality of being fraudulent.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. Cause to be attached.
65. A widely distributed family of plants.
69. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
70. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
73. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
74. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
77. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
78. (informal) Of the highest quality.
79. A great raja.
80. The chance to speak.
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1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
4. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
5. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
6. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
7. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
8. Strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
9. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
10. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. Earlier a god.
13. Very large white gannet with black wing tips.
14. Drained of energy or effectiveness.
22. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
27. Before noon.
29. A genus of Indriidae.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. The cry made by sheep.
35. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
40. A character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter.
41. (biology) Rough to the touch.
43. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
44. A squeaking sound.
45. Any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
51. A tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice.
53. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
54. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
57. Hungarian playwright (1878-1952).
60. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
61. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
63. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
66. Informal terms for a meal.
67. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
68. Suggestive of the supernatural.
71. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
75. 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.
76. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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