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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves.
17. Any high mountain.
18. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
20. The location of something surrounded by other things.
21. A period of time spent sleeping.
22. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
24. The last (12th) month of the year.
26. Not out.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. Cause to grow thin or weak.
32. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
33. Protected from heat and light with shade or shadow.
36. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. (of animals) Fully developed.
45. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
49. An inlaid furniture decoration.
51. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
52. A doctor's degree in religion.
53. Of or relating to near the ear.
55. Herbs or shrubs or small trees.
57. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
61. An upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire.
64. Divulge information or secrets.
66. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
67. Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit.
69. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
73. A bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats.
75. A town in southwestern Idaho.
77. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
78. Type genus of the Amiidae.
79. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
81. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
82. A polite name for any woman.
83. Pain in the gums.
84. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. A city in north-central India.
2. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
3. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
4. Capital of Swaziland.
5. 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.
6. A state in southeastern United States.
7. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
8. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
9. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
10. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
11. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
14. Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh.
19. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
23. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
25. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
29. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element.
30. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
31. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
34. Not easy.
35. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
37. Perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop.
38. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
39. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
46. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
47. Extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia).
48. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
50. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
54. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high).
56. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
58. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
62. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
63. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
65. Jordan's port.
68. A cry of sorrow and grief.
70. The female reproductive cell.
71. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
72. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
74. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
76. One millionth of a gram.
80. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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