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1. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
4. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
15. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
16. Type genus of the Plataleidae.
17. Tag the base runner to get him out.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. The 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites.
20. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
22. A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. A small vessel for travel on water.
27. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. A small skullcap.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
33. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
34. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
40. United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931).
43. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
44. Type genus of the Cracidae.
45. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
49. The longest division of geological time.
53. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
56. A shed containing a number of beehives.
58. The basic unit of money in Macao.
62. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
63. The taxonomic kingdom of lower plants.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
69. Used of paved surfaces having holes or pits.
71. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
73. An associate degree in applied science.
74. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
75. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
77. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
78. The sixth month of the civil year.
79. Temporary fortification like a detached bastion.
80. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
2. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
3. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
4. With rapid movements.
5. Any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum.
6. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
7. Without tonality.
8. A period of time spent sleeping.
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War.
13. New Zealand conifer.
14. Make less active or intense.
21. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
23. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
25. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
29. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
31. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
35. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
36. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
37. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
38. An extreme state of adversity.
39. The act of mimicking.
41. Being ten more than eighty.
42. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
48. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
50. A licensed medical practitioner.
51. Without compunction or human feeling.
52. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
54. An ulceration (especially of the lips or living of the mouth) v 1.
55. A state in midwestern United States.
57. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
59. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
60. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
61. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
64. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
66. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
67. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
68. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
70. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
72. Used of a single unit or thing.
76. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
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