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1. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
5. Small deciduous open-crowned tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches.
12. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
15. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
16. Untanned hide especially of cattle.
17. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
18. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
19. A means of serving.
20. A resident of Iowa.
22. A large number or amount.
24. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
25. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
26. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
30. A bachelor's degree in science.
32. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
34. Titmice and chickadees.
38. Jordan's port.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
42. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
43. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
44. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
45. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
47. A master's degree in education.
48. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
51. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
53. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
55. A genus of Malayan tree.
58. Before noon.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
63. A warning against certain acts.
67. A flask that holds spirits.
70. The cry made by sheep.
71. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
74. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
75. Containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor.
78. Make editorial changes (in a text).
80. Using speech rather than writing.
81. A growth in strength or number or importance.
82. A city in central southwestern Iran.
83. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. Being here now.
3. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
4. Attractiveness to the opposite sex.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
7. A festival featuring African-American culture.
8. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
9. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
10. A doctor's degree in optometry.
11. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
12. A neutral middle vowel.
13. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
14. 100 sene equal 1 tala.
21. A song that was formerly popular.
23. Wood of a sumac.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
29. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
31. An ability that has been acquired by training.
33. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
35. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
36. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
37. Make attractive or lovable.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
49. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
50. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
52. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
54. A heading that names a statute or legislative bill.
56. Overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof.
57. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
61. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
62. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
64. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
65. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
66. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
68. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
69. Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
76. The month following February and preceding April.
77. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
79. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
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