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1. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
4. Social insect living in organized colonies.
11. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. (chemistry) Relating to or containing an alkali.
17. By bad luck.
18. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
20. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
21. Work hard.
22. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
23. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
25. Of or relating to apnea.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. The act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something).
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
41. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
43. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
45. A binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element.
47. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
49. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
54. Situated in a particular spot or position.
57. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
59. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
61. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish.
71. A branch of the Tai languages.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
76. A master's degree in business.
77. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
78. Or family Polypodiaceae.
79. Tag the base runner to get him out.
80. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
81. Of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of of taxonomic classification that he proposed.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
4. Battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761.
5. Being nine more than forty.
6. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
7. New Zealand conifer.
8. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
9. A small stream.
10. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
11. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
12. At or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship.
13. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
14. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
19. Jordan's port.
24. Used in some classifications for rose apples (Eugenia jambos).
26. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
27. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
29. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
31. A white trivalent metallic element.
33. Deciduous shrub of North America.
34. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
35. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
37. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
38. A fraudulent business scheme.
39. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
42. American novelist (1909-1955).
44. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
46. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
48. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
51. Taking on different forms.
52. A town in northern Egypt.
55. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
56. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
58. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
60. Made of wood of the aspen tree n.
62. A genus of Lamnidae.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Jordan's port.
66. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
67. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
69. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
70. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
73. A pass between mountain peaks.
74. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
75. (British) Your grandmother.
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