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1. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
4. A thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery.
11. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
15. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
16. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
17. Armor plate that protects the chest.
18. God of wealth and love.
20. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
21. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
22. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
23. A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization.
40. The largest city in New Jersey.
42. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
43. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
44. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
45. An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor.
46. The month following March and preceding May.
49. The sister of your father or mother.
50. An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property.
55. Relieve from military service.
57. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
63. The third month of the civil year.
66. (euphemistic) "he is deceased".
69. Regional and archaic.
71. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
72. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
73. A master's degree in fine arts.
74. A city in southeastern Spain.
77. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
78. A port in southwestern Scotland.
79. A colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs.
80. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
4. The act of scanning.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
7. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
8. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
9. British composer (1857-1934).
10. Of or relating to Laos or its people.
11. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
12. God of fire.
13. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
14. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
19. A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae.
24. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
26. A short sleep (usually not in bed).
27. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
29. Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender down-curving bill.
31. A state in New England.
32. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
34. A city in Veneto.
35. Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.
36. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
38. A glancing rebound.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. English architect (1746-1813).
47. Sink below the surface.
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
51. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
52. Deliberately impassive in manner.
53. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
54. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
56. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
58. Open and observable.
60. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
65. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
67. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
70. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
75. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
76. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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