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1. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
4. A white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug.
11. Occurring widely (as to many people).
15. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
16. A preparation used in cleaning something.
17. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
18. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
19. A man who serves as a sailor.
20. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
21. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
23. Female equine animal.
24. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
25. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
27. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
30. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
31. A form of address for a man.
32. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
34. A true bug.
37. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).
41. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
44. A source of oil.
45. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
49. Solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth.
50. All the weapons and equipment that a country has.
52. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
53. An oil port in southern Iraq.
55. A quantity of no importance.
58. Not final or absolute.
60. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. Greek mythology.
75. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
76. Oldest known reptiles.
78. Black tropical American cuckoo.
79. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
80. A great raja.
81. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. Selected as the best.
2. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
3. An advantageous purchase.
4. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
5. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
6. A three-tone Chadic language.
7. Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth.
8. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradually heating and cooling.
9. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
10. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
11. Covered with paving material.
12. Jordan's port.
13. Big-eyed scad.
14. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
22. Sweetened beverage of lime juice and water.
26. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
28. A dress crepe.
29. United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914).
33. Remove gas from.
35. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
36. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes.
38. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
39. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
40. City in Sudan.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind.
51. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
54. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. All the animal life in a particular region.
59. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. In bed.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
66. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
67. A Russian river.
68. A female domestic.
70. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
71. An accountant certified by the state.
72. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
73. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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