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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
12. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Noteworthy scarcity.
17. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
18. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
20. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
21. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
22. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
25. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
26. Spray very finely.
27. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
29. French psychologist remembered for his studies of the intellectual development of children (1857-1911).
30. One-hundredth of a right angle.
34. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
38. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
41. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
42. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
44. A fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera.
45. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
48. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
49. Of legislation.
50. Clothing for the head.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
56. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
59. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
61. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
65. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
68. Dyed with henna.
71. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
72. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
74. A master's degree in business.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. Too old to be useful.
78. A decree that prohibits something.
79. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
80. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
2. By bad luck.
3. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
4. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
5. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
6. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
7. Any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having 3-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring.
8. Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves.
9. Short descriptive summary (of events).
10. A line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. Type genus of the Amiidae.
13. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
14. The act of scanning.
19. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
23. Tag the base runner to get him out.
24. Someone who eats no animal products at all.
28. Any location known for vice and corruption.
31. Tie again or anew.
32. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
33. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
35. Someone who wastes time.
36. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
37. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
40. The capital and largest city of Japan.
43. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
46. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
52. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
54. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
57. An iconic mental representation.
58. 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.
60. God of wealth and love.
62. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. Colloquial British abbreviation.
67. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
69. Divisible by two.
70. A quantity of no importance.
73. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
77. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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