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1. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
4. Producing no fruit.
12. 10 grams.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
18. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. Noisy quarrel.
20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
24. Step on it.
25. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
26. Unpleasantly stern.
28. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
33. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
37. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
40. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
41. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
42. An informal term for a father.
45. A light touch or stroke.
46. A loud harsh or strident noise.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
52. A fraudulent business scheme.
54. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
55. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
57. The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis.
59. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
61. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
62. By bad luck.
65. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
72. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
78. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
79. (informal) Roused to anger.
80. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
81. The bill in a restaurant.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
4. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
5. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Possessing material wealth.
8. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island.
9. Common black European thrush.
10. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
11. American financier and Revolutionary patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785).
12. Costing 10 dollars.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
21. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
23. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
27. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
29. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
34. Bur marigolds.
35. Annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia.
36. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
38. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
39. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
43. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
44. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
47. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
49. United States baseball player.
51. A mistake resulting from inattention.
53. French philosopher and theologian.
56. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. A person of Iranian descent.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. Lacking excess flesh.
67. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
69. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
70. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
73. (Babylonian) The sky god.
74. An enclosed space.
77. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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