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1. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
4. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
12. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
15. Black tropical American cuckoo.
16. Being eight more than eighty.
17. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
18. A large and imposing house.
20. Being one more than two.
21. The ability and desire to purchase goods and services.
23. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. A member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma.
28. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
29. An informal term for a father.
31. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
35. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
37. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
39. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
41. Small tropical flea.
43. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
44. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
46. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
47. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
50. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
51. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Someone who bakes commercially.
58. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
59. Not widely known.
60. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
64. (informal) Exceptionally good.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. One millionth of a gram.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
79. Liquid excretory product.
80. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
81. Made warm or hot.
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1. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
2. The act of catching an object with the hands.
3. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
4. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
5. The second largest state.
6. Voluntarily absent from home or country.
7. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
8. Being six more than fifty.
9. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
10. A hiding place.
11. Production of a certain amount.
12. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
13. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
14. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. Evil or harmful in nature or influence.
24. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
25. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
27. A city in east central Texas.
30. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
33. A person who fights duels.
34. Alloy of copper and tin and zinc.
36. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
38. Person who does no work.
40. Jordan's port.
42. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
49. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
53. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
54. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
56. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
57. Unknown god.
61. A state of sanctification by God.
62. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
63. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
65. A branch of the Tai languages.
66. The basic unit of money on Malta.
68. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
69. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
70. Expel, as of gases and odors.
72. Of southern Europe.
73. An accountant certified by the state.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. Being nine more than ninety.
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