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1. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
5. A porous mass of interlacing fibers the forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used.
11. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
15. An Eskimo hut.
16. Of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era).
17. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
18. A small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid.
19. Male turkey.
21. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
22. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
23. Darkened with overcast.
24. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
27. Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized.
34. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
39. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
41. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
44. A master's degree in religion.
45. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
47. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
49. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
50. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
53. A metal spike with a hole for a rope.
54. Indigo bush.
57. Filled with a great quantity.
59. God of wealth and love.
61. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
62. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
66. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
67. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
70. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
72. An associate degree in applied science.
73. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
75. A space that is contained within another space.
77. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
78. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
79. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
80. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. A Berber living in northern Morocco.
2. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
3. A group of countries in special alliance.
4. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
5. French painter who developed pointilism (1859-1891).
6. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
7. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
8. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
9. A humorous anecdote or remark.
10. Of or relating to or consisting of enol.
11. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
12. A Scottish word.
13. Able to act at will.
14. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
20. A reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth.
25. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
29. Freetail bats.
30. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
31. An armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band.
32. Related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain.
33. Capital of Armenia.
35. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
36. Having services engaged for a fee.
40. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
42. A state in New England.
46. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
48. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
51. A city in northwestern Syria.
52. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
55. How long something has existed.
56. A mistake resulting from inattention.
58. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
60. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
63. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
68. Temporary military shelter.
69. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
71. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
74. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
76. A state in north central United States.
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