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1. A group of countries in special alliance.
5. (New Testament) One of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus.
11. Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed.
15. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
16. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
17. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
18. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
19. A city in the western Netherlands.
20. Chief port of Yemen.
21. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
23. French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (1854-1891).
25. A mite of the genus Acarus.
27. Love unquestioningly and uncritically.
28. One thousand periods per second.
30. A particular environment or walk of life.
31. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
32. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
38. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
39. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year.
43. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
49. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
50. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
51. A genus of Mustelidae.
52. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
53. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
56. Philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
58. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
61. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
63. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
66. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
72. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
75. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
76. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
80. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
81. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
82. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. A very troublesome child.
2. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
3. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
4. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
5. A coterie of undesirable people.
6. Used of a single unit or thing.
7. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
8. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
9. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
10. Nearly cosmopolitan family.
11. Resistant to change of position or condition.
12. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
13. Blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel.
14. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
22. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
24. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
26. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
29. Any taillike structure.
33. Taken or to be taken at random.
34. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
35. A genus of Indriidae.
36. In some classifications.
37. (Greek mythology) The last king of Troy.
40. In bed.
42. In a foreign country.
44. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
45. A Russian river.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. A title used to address any peeress except a duchess.
54. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
55. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
60. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
62. An oil port in southern Iraq.
64. Deeply moved.
65. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
68. Type genus of the Amiidae.
69. South African term for `boss'.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
73. 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 loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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