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1. Type genus of the Sulidae.
5. Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions.
12. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
15. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
16. The domain controlled by an emir.
17. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
18. Not open or public.
19. Of or relating to or resembling or abounding in marl.
20. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
21. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
24. Fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs.
27. General who commanded the Carthaginian army in the Second Punic War.
29. The compass point midway between south and west.
31. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
32. An alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city.
33. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
36. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
40. Goddess of fate.
44. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
45. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
48. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
51. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
52. An artificial language.
53. Plant in checkrows.
55. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
57. Type genus of the Ranidae.
58. (informal) Of the highest quality.
60. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery.
67. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
71. Transient cessation of respiration.
72. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
76. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. Having much flesh (especially fat).
81. A branch of the Tai languages.
82. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
83. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
2. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
3. Closed with a lace.
4. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
5. Made warm or hot.
6. Before noon.
7. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
8. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
9. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
10. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
11. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
14. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
22. A young woman making her debut into society.
23. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
25. The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. United States artist who was a leader of the pop art movement (1930-1987).
34. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. The basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe.
38. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
39. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
41. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
42. Unable to relax or be still.
43. A Loloish language.
46. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles.
47. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
54. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
56. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
59. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
63. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
64. Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect.
65. The act of scanning.
66. A beautiful and graceful girl.
68. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
70. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. An informal term for a father.
79. Being nine more than ninety.
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