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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. (law) Not of legal age.
12. The foot of a human being.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. King of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where is was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC).
17. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
18. Not reflecting light.
19. A large continuous extent of land.
20. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
21. Speaking a Slavic language.
23. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
24. Enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass.
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
29. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
30. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
32. North Atlantic sea poacher.
37. Tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia.
43. Undergo necrosis.
44. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
45. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
50. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. Small wooden bat with a flat surface.
58. The state of existing and being localized in space.
59. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
61. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay.
66. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
70. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
74. The sixth month of the civil year.
75. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
81. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
82. Common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America.
83. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
4. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
5. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
6. Having finished or arrived at completion.
7. Either extremity of something that has length.
8. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
9. American Revolutionary patriot.
10. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
11. A city in western Germany.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
13. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance.
25. Little known Kamarupan languages.
27. A disreputable vagrant.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
31. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
33. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
34. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
35. A warning against certain acts.
36. Causing or capable of causing death.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. The act of groping.
48. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
49. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
52. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
53. The cry made by sheep.
55. Treated with oil.
57. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
65. Chief port of Yemen.
67. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
68. In bed.
69. Type genus of the Majidae.
71. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
72. The residue that remains when something is burned.
73. An accountant certified by the state.
78. Before noon.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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