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1. An inhabitant of Lappland.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
11. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
15. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
16. A covered passageway.
17. A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.
18. Gone by.
20. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
21. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
22. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
24. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. Unknown god.
28. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
30. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
32. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
34. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
36. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
39. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
43. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
44. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
45. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
48. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
49. The 6th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
52. Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.
54. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
55. Leafless East Indian vine.
56. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
57. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
60. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
62. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
66. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
70. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
73. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
74. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
75. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
76. Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film).
78. Not reflecting light.
79. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
80. (trademark) A piece of soft absorbent paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. (British and Australian) A cheap wine of inferior quality.
4. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. A large fleet.
7. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
8. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
9. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
10. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
11. United States author (born 1932).
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
13. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
14. In or of the present month.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. (Old Testament) Samson's Philistine mistress who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength.
25. A book in which the log is written.
29. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
31. Used of a single unit or thing.
33. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
38. A genus of Sylviidae.
40. A long narrow excavation in the earth.
41. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. One of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan.
47. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
51. Flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish.
53. A tumor derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges or choroid plexus or certain other structures associated with the brain.
58. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
59. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
61. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
63. Being of use or service.
64. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
65. An addition that extends a main building.
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. English essayist (1775-1834).
69. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
77. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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