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1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. Something of sentimental value.
12. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
15. The longest division of geological time.
16. A region of central France west of the Auvergne mountains.
17. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
18. (Brit) Someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions.
20. Quick and energetic.
21. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
22. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
24. Declare or make legally valid.
26. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
27. A state in New England.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
30. Being five more than fifty.
31. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
32. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
42. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
43. Corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (Southern).
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. An inhabitant of Lappland.
48. A local computer network for communication between computers.
49. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
52. Goat grass.
55. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
56. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
58. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
61. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
63. A deep bow.
66. Notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex.
71. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
75. Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control.
77. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
78. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
79. The academic world.
80. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Set or keep apart.
2. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
3. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
4. German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925).
5. A genus of Mustelidae.
6. The square of a body of any size of type.
7. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
8. Continue to live.
9. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
10. The third month of the civil year.
11. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
12. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
13. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
14. A path set aside for walking.
19. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
23. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
25. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
28. First in order of importance.
33. A mountain peak in the Saint Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high).
34. At full speed.
35. (prefix) Within.
37. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
39. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
40. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
41. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
44. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
47. Fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground.
50. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
51. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
53. The basic unit of money in Paraguay.
54. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
62. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
64. 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.
65. A polite name for any woman.
67. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
68. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
69. Very dark black.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. An honorary law degree.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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