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1. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
5. Workplace for the teaching or practice of an art.
11. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
15. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
16. Wildly disordered.
17. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
18. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
20. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
21. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
22. (law) A courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge in a trial that is held out of the jury's hearing.
24. Wear away.
26. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
29. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
32. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
36. A loud harsh or strident noise.
37. The bill in a restaurant.
39. Italian composer remembered for his symphonic poems (1879-1936).
43. (botany) Of some seeds.
46. A white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
48. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
50. (informal) Of the highest quality.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
58. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
61. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
62. Jordan's port.
64. Make less visible or unclear.
68. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
69. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
73. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
74. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
75. Marked by extreme anger.
77. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. The body of people who lead a group.
80. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
3. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
4. In this place or thing or document.
5. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
7. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
8. The face of a timepiece.
9. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
10. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
11. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
13. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
14. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
19. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
28. Water frozen in the solid state.
30. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
31. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
33. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
34. Affectedly trendy.
35. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
38. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. The second largest city in Tunisia.
41. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
42. A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes.
44. 1 species.
45. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
49. Someone who plays the bagpipe.
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
55. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. A city in northeastern Ohio.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
63. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
65. Fail to do something.
66. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
67. Offering fun and gaiety.
70. Used of a single unit or thing.
71. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
72. How long something has existed.
76. An honorary degree in science.
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