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1. A woman religious.
4. A horizontal bar that goes across something.
12. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. A perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
19. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
20. An atom having a valence of one.
22. By bad luck.
24. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
25. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
27. Capital of modern Macedonia.
30. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
32. The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
42. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
43. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
44. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
45. The sound made by a gentle blow.
46. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
47. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
49. German bacteriologist who found a `magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915).
51. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.
53. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
55. A university in Connecticut.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
60. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
62. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
65. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
67. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
72. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
74. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
77. The cry made by sheep.
78. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
79. The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear.
80. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
81. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
82. Lighted by a lamp.
83. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. The most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai).
2. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
3. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
4. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
5. A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water.
6. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
7. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
8. A Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir.
9. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. Creation that is created again or anew.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
21. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
23. Wood of a sumac.
26. God of wisdom or prophesy.
28. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969).
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. Old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576).
34. An authoritative person who divines the future.
35. A son of your brother or sister.
37. The month following March and preceding May.
38. Food for domestic livestock.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Given to lying.
52. Subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration.
54. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
58. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
59. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
61. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
63. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
64. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
66. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
68. An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people.
69. A slender double-reed instrument.
70. Deeply moved.
71. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
73. How long something has existed.
75. The rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing).
76. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces.
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