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1. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
4. A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).
11. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture.
17. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
18. Container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing).
20. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
21. United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829).
22. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
23. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
26. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
28. Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980).
30. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
31. An awkward stupid person.
32. Rounded like an egg.
35. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
38. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
42. The airforce of Great Britain.
43. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
50. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
51. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
52. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
53. The third month of the civil year.
56. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
58. A mass of undifferentiated cells from with an organ or body part develops.
60. Extremely robust.
61. An organization of military land forces.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
65. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
67. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
71. Mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker.
72. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
74. A cgs unit of work or energy.
75. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
78. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
79. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
80. Having no nose.
81. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
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1. Vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments.
2. The basic unit of money in Sweden.
3. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
4. Humorously vulgar.
5. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
6. Calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system).
7. In operation or operational.
8. Express or utter with a hiss.
9. United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975).
10. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
11. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
12. A Hindu prince or king in India.
13. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
14. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
19. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
25. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
27. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
34. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
36. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
37. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
39. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
40. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
41. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
44. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
47. God of fire.
48. American gurnard.
49. (Greek mythology) The Greek personification of death.
54. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
55. A particular kind (as to appearance).
57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
59. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
63. Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire.
64. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
66. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
68. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
69. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
70. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
73. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
76. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
77. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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