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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC).
11. A sign of something about to happen.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. Having bracts.
17. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
20. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
21. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
23. Genus of American herbs with yellow-rayed flowers.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. A large fleet.
30. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
35. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
36. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
39. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
40. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
42. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
45. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
46. Tie again or anew.
48. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
50. Disposed or willing to comply.
52. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
54. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
56. Someone who earn wages in return for their labor.
57. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
59. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
60. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. The sixth month of the civil year.
72. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
74. Extremely pleasing.
77. A transuranic element.
78. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
79. A family of fish of the order Heterosomata.
80. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
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1. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
4. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
5. The father of your father or mother.
6. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
7. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
8. A major god.
9. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
10. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
11. Dragonflies and damselflies.
12. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
13. A very light brown.
14. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
28. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
29. That which has mass and occupies space.
31. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
32. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
33. A projection used for strength or for attaching to another object.
34. A sore that has become inflamed and formed pus.
37. The food served and eaten at one time.
38. Indigo bush.
41. A man who serves as a sailor.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. Be foolish or senile due to old age.
47. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
49. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
51. A flexible container with a single opening.
53. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
58. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
61. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
64. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
66. Lie adjacent to another.
67. Something causes misery or death.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
71. Negation of a word or group of words.
73. Water frozen in the solid state.
75. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
76. An expression of greeting.
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