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1. Informal terms for a mother.
4. Terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests.
12. A tight embrace.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Of or relating to alluvium.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. A housing for a radar antenna.
20. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
21. How long something has existed.
22. Leader of a group or festival.
23. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
25. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
26. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
29. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
32. (informal) Of the highest quality.
33. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
37. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
39. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
43. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
47. Make reference to.
51. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
52. A slight wind (usually refreshing).
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
57. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
64. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
70. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
73. A South American river.
74. Any location known for vice and corruption.
76. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
77. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
78. The father of your father or mother.
80. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
81. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
82. Beside one another in a row or rank.
83. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
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1. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
4. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
5. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
6. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
7. A major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river.
8. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
9. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
10. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
11. Muslim name for God.
12. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
13. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
14. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
19. A dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten).
24. A republic in western South America.
27. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
30. The second largest continent.
34. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
35. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
36. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
38. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
40. The capital of Croatia.
41. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
42. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
45. (used in combination) "the economy-size package".
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Goat grass.
50. Being derived from.
55. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
58. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. A river in eastern France.
63. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
65. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
66. Toward the mouth or oral region.
67. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
68. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
69. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
71. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
72. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
75. Not reflecting light.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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