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1. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
4. An official report (usually sent in haste).
12. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Trees native to East Indies having pinnate leaves.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
19. Somewhat soft.
20. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
21. A thrusting blow with a knife.
23. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. Old World tropical herbs.
30. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
33. Hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia.
37. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
40. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
42. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
43. Political propaganda (especially Communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema.
46. Molding in the form of a ring.
48. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
50. Having only superficial plausibility.
51. Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.
53. Lower in esteem.
55. No longer in force or use.
58. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
62. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
65. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
68. A city in central Florida.
72. The town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days.
75. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
76. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
77. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
80. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
81. A polite name for any woman.
82. Disposed to please.
83. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. Large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters.
2. Having winglike extensions.
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
5. At any time.
6. (prefix) Half or partial.
7. The amount of money needed to purchase something.
8. Malicious burning to destroy property.
9. A branch of the Tai languages.
10. Coffee trees.
11. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
12. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
26. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
29. A genus of Scolopacidae.
31. A city in northern India.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
34. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
35. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
36. The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal.
38. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
39. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
41. A person forced to flee from home or country.
44. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
45. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
49. Moderate or restrain.
52. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
54. Obvious and dull.
56. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
57. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
60. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
63. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
64. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
66. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
67. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
69. A condition requiring relief.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
73. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
74. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
78. Before noon.
79. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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