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1. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
4. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
12. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Any compound containing a chlorine atom.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. Assign to a lower position.
20. A language group of the Hokan family.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
23. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
24. A telegram sent abroad.
26. Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace.
28. Having or as if having limbs (especially limbs of a specified kind).
30. A way of regarding situations or topics etc..
32. (Greek mythology) God of the heavens.
36. The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization.
40. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
41. A member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast.
42. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
43. The last (12th) month of the year.
45. Whining in a tearful manner.
47. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
49. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
50. A golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers).
53. Trace the shape of.
56. A local computer network for communication between computers.
57. 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.
60. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
62. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
66. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.
70. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
71. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
74. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
75. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
76. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
78. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
79. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
80. A lack of vitality.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Evergreen shrubs of north temperate regions.
2. A particular environment or walk of life.
3. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. (botany) Outer tissue of bark.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. Of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch.
8. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
9. Heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds.
10. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
11. Someone skilled at fencing.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
14. Articles of the same kind or material.
19. Be more of a rival than.
25. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances).
27. A genus of Mustelidae.
29. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
31. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
33. Of a kind not seen before.
34. The ending of a series or sequence.
35. Very large white gannet with black wing tips.
37. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
38. Out of bed.
39. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
44. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
46. A military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.
48. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
51. A game played with playing cards.
52. New Guinea echidnas.
54. That is to say.
55. The capital and largest city of Managua.
58. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
59. Rub elbows with.
61. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
63. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
67. Type genus of the Amiidae.
68. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
69. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
72. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
73. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
77. An associate degree in nursing.
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