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1. An odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer.
5. Someone who writes comic material for public performers.
12. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
15. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
16. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
17. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
18. A man who courts a woman.
19. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
20. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
22. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
24. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
25. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
26. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
28. Be on one's guard.
30. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
31. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
32. A city in northern India.
36. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
39. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. The airforce of Great Britain.
44. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
46. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
48. The front limb (or homologous structure in other animals such as a flipper or wing).
52. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
53. Robber flies.
54. Indicating the most important performer or role.
56. Device for resetting instruments or controls v 1.
57. Spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods.
59. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. A state in New England.
61. Marked by deception.
63. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
67. Common Indian weaverbird.
71. The act of scanning.
72. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
74. A telegram sent abroad.
75. A unit of pressure.
79. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
80. The act of using.
81. The dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess.
82. A French abbot.
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1. A Nilotic language.
2. Take control of.
3. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
4. The largest city in Pakistan.
5. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
6. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
7. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
8. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
9. National capital of Kiribati.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
12. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
13. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
23. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
27. Any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers.
29. In bed.
33. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
34. Disparaging terms for the common people.
35. Regional and archaic.
37. At or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other.
38. Large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind.
40. The segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British).
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. A master's degree in literature.
47. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
49. Being one more than ten.
50. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
51. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
55. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
58. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A book of the New Testament.
65. Same in identity.
66. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
68. Informal terms for a mother.
69. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
70. Being here now.
73. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
76. A Mid-Atlantic state.
77. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
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