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1. A pass between mountain peaks.
4. Deserving or inciting pity.
12. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
20. (of animals) Fully developed.
21. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
22. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
25. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
27. Taken or to be taken at random.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
34. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
37. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
39. Formed like a bacillus.
41. Of or relating to or involving an area.
43. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
44. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
45. Two-year-old sheep.
46. The sign language used in the United States.
48. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
51. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
52. Having or using only one filament.
55. A colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent.
57. A member of a North American Indian people of the Gila river valley in Arizona.
59. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
60. A state in the eastern United States.
61. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
63. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
68. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
72. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
73. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
76. The cry made by sheep.
77. Not reflecting light.
78. Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes.
80. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
81. The residue that remains when something is burned.
82. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
83. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
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1. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
3. (Scotland) A landowner.
4. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.
7. Perceive sound.
8. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
9. Pulled or drawn tight.
10. Invalid or incorrect reasoning.
11. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
24. A dyed fabric.
26. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
28. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
31. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
32. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
33. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
35. A particular environment or walk of life.
36. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
38. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
40. Closed with a lace.
42. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
47. A landlocked republic in central Europe.
49. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
50. Genus of tropical American timber trees.
53. A slender and greatly elongated solid substance.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
56. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Type genus of the Anatidae.
65. (used with count nouns) Two considered together.
66. An inhabitant of Lappland.
67. The act of scanning.
69. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
70. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
71. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
75. Being one more than two.
79. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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