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1. Considerate and solicitous care.
4. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
11. (quantifier used with mass nouns) Great in quantity or degree or extent.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. A republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic.
17. A small island.
18. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
20. Mix up or confuse.
21. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
22. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Causing irritation or annoyance.
30. A state in east central United States.
32. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
34. A disreputable vagrant.
36. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
37. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
41. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
43. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
45. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
46. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
47. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Type genus of the Majidae.
53. A colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins.
55. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
56. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
57. Brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea.
59. A native-born Israeli.
61. An informal term for a father.
62. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
65. A bomb with incendiary effects.
70. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
72. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
73. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
76. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
77. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
78. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
80. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
81. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
82. Be earlier in time.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Petty quarrel.
2. A Loloish language.
3. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
5. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
6. (meteorology) Of an air current or wind.
7. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
8. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. French novelist.
10. On or toward the lee.
11. Lead someone in the wrong direction.
12. Goddess of dawn.
13. A short light metallic sound.
14. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
19. A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.
25. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
27. A light touch or stroke.
28. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
31. Perennial plants resembling yucca.
33. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
35. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
38. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
39. In or of the present month.
40. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
42. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
44. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
49. Of clothing.
51. Family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications.
52. Found along western Atlantic coast.
54. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
58. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
60. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
67. An easy victory.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. Something causes misery or death.
71. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
74. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
75. Late time of life.
79. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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