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1. The unit of frequency.
4. City in the northern Dominican Republic.
12. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
15. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
16. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
17. (Irish) The sea personified.
18. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
20. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
21. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
22. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
24. United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831).
26. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
28. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. A mountain range in China.
36. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
40. United States sculptor (1860-1936).
44. A state in midwestern United States.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
47. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
48. Tropical Asian starlings.
51. Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft).
52. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
53. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
54. The capital of Western Samoa.
56. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
59. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
61. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
64. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
66. Genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America.
69. Wanted intensely.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. The branch of medicine concerned with the feet.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
79. A skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research.
80. An electrically charged particle.
81. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
82. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
83. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
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1. Elegant and stylish.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
4. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
5. City in central Iran.
6. A state in southeastern United States.
7. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
8. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
9. A resource.
10. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
11. (sports) Not offside.
12. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
13. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
14. Become ground down or deteriorate.
19. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
23. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
25. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
27. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
30. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
31. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
35. A transuranic element.
37. A town in southwestern Idaho.
38. A musician who plays the oboe.
39. Largest known toad species.
41. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
42. Physically weak.
43. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
49. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
50. Cause to be embarrassed.
55. God of death.
57. Of southern United States.
58. Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950).
60. Any of several compounds of barium.
62. French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people.
63. A city of central China.
65. Of inferior or mixed breed.
67. A city in northern India.
68. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
70. Characteristic of false pride.
71. Very dark black.
72. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
75. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
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