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1. A person's brother or sister.
4. A mining town in southern Wales.
12. A solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. Someone who fights bulls.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
20. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
22. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
25. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
27. Noisy talk.
28. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
30. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
32. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
34. Great coolness and composure under strain.
38. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
39. State in northeastern India.
42. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
43. Consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl.
45. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
46. A state in north central United States.
47. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
49. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
51. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
54. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
56. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
57. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
60. 1 species.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
64. A telegram sent abroad.
66. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named.
68. A Hindu prince or king in India.
72. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
76. A local computer network for communication between computers.
77. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
78. Proboscis monkeys.
79. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
80. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
81. Ask for or request earnestly.
82. An associate degree in applied science.
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1. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
4. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
5. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
6. A cgs unit of work or energy.
7. Having been read.
8. Having a woven pattern.
9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. The act of traveling by foot.
21. City in Sudan.
23. German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947).
24. Lower in esteem.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
29. In addition.
31. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
33. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
35. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
36. Deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees.
37. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
40. The month following July and preceding September.
41. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. Formed like a bacillus.
50. A medium to dark brownish yellow color.
52. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.
53. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
55. A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula.
58. Brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets.
59. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
63. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
65. Administer an oil or ointment to.
67. A thin fog with condensation near the ground v 1.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
70. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
71. Type genus of the Anatidae.
73. Used of a single unit or thing.
74. A decree that prohibits something.
75. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
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