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1. (British) Informal term for information.
4. Very sad.
12. The bill in a restaurant.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Made or produced in the home or by yourself.
17. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
18. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
19. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
20. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. Turn into gas.
27. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
29. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras.
32. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
33. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
37. Report or maintain.
41. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
44. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
49. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
51. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
52. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
53. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
58. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
62. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
64. A bitter quarrel between two parties.
66. Blue sharks.
70. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
73. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
74. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
76. Become less tense.
77. (informal) Of the highest quality.
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
81. (Irish) The sea personified.
82. Large Old World butterflies.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
3. A quantity of no importance.
4. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
5. Capital and largest city of Italy.
6. Before noon.
7. God of the earth.
8. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression.
9. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
10. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
11. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
12. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
13. By bad luck.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
23. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
25. A person authorized to conduct religious worship.
26. Little known Kamarupan languages.
28. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
30. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
31. A young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals.
34. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
35. Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956).
36. Exultantly proud and joyful.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. An informal term for a father.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
43. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
47. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
50. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
54. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
56. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
57. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
60. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
61. Chick-pea plant.
63. Any admirable quality or attribute.
65. Indigo bush.
67. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
68. A city in northwestern Syria.
69. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
71. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
75. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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