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1. God of love and erotic desire.
5. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
12. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
15. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables.
20. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
21. Obvious and dull.
23. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
24. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
27. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
30. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
32. Having an elongated seating area.
35. Any orchid of the genus Aerides.
39. A distinguishing feature of one's personal nature.
41. A member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India.
43. Large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval smooth-skinned fruit.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
45. The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage.
48. Wood of any of various alder trees.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
53. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
54. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
62. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
64. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
66. Give an education to.
70. A town in north central Oklahoma.
71. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
74. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
75. A capacious bag or basket.
76. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
77. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
78. Informal terms for a meal.
79. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
80. Type genus of the Anatidae.
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1. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
8. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
9. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. Tag the base runner to get him out.
12. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
13. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
14. With no effort to conceal.
19. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style.
22. Related by marriage.
25. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
26. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
28. Australian moundbird.
29. A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide.
31. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
33. An investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods.
34. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
36. Small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people.
37. Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736).
38. A store or supply (especially of food or clothing or arms).
40. King of the Huns.
42. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
46. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
47. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
50. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
52. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
56. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
58. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
59. A master's degree in literature.
60. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
61. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
63. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
65. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
67. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
68. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
69. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
72. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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