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1. Your general store of remembered information.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
11. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Having no fixed course.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
20. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
21. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
22. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
23. A group of countries in special alliance.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. Remove from memory or existence.
29. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
32. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
33. A large fleet.
36. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
38. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
46. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
48. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
51. A state in east central United States.
52. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. A distinguished female operatic singer.
55. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
57. Suggestive of the supernatural.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language.
72. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
73. Of or relating to a creed.
75. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
76. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. A small cloth bag filled with dried beans.
79. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
80. (British) Informal term for information.
81. Rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs.
82. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
7. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
8. Acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord, of tenants.
9. Deciduous shrub of North America.
10. (informal) Of the highest quality.
11. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
12. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
13. Armor plate that protects the chest.
14. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
19. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
24. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
26. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
28. An enclosed space.
30. Free and relaxed in manner.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
35. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
37. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
42. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
43. A quantity that is added.
45. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
47. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
49. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
56. Any of several seeds that yield oil.
58. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
59. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
63. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
65. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
66. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
67. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
68. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
69. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
71. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
74. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
78. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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