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1. Inquire about.
4. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
12. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Lacking gonads.
17. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
20. 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.
22. Lower in esteem.
24. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
26. Informal terms for a mother.
29. A master's degree in religion.
30. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
33. A deep bow.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
40. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
42. Before noon.
43. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
45. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
47. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
48. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
49. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
51. Land received by fee tail v 1.
53. Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes.
56. The content of cognition.
57. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
59. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
62. Of surpassing excellence.
67. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
71. Submerged freshwater perennials.
72. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
74. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
75. Used of a single unit or thing.
76. More of the same adv.
78. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
79. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
80. Ornamental objects of no great value.
81. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. God of love and erotic desire.
4. Informal terms for money.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
7. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
8. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
9. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. A kind of person.
12. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
13. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
14. The capital of Western Samoa.
21. Type genus of the Amiidae.
23. A plant fiber used for making rope.
25. A meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
28. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
31. Related by common characteristics or ancestry.
32. A situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole.
34. How long something has existed.
36. The act of despoiling a country in warfare.
37. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
39. Having been read.
41. Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits.
44. A primeval personification of air and breath.
46. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
50. Adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances.
52. An airfield without normal airport facilities.
54. Given or having a specified name.
55. A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance.
58. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
63. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
64. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
65. A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. Using speech rather than writing.
69. (prefix) Within.
70. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
77. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
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