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1. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
4. Of or relating to a wedding.
11. A doctor's degree in music.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
16. A small republic in the eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France.
17. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
18. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
19. A deep bow.
21. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
23. Small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. An honorary arts degree.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
41. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
42. The craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone.
45. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
46. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
48. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
49. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
51. An ardent male lover.
53. A vast multitude.
55. A city in northern India.
56. The mother of your father or mother.
58. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens.
60. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
61. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
62. Beyond what is natural.
63. A genus of Ploceidae.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
74. A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar).
76. English monk and scholar (672-735).
78. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
80. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
81. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
82. Continue with one's activities.
83. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
4. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
5. Continuing at full strength or intensity.
6. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
7. Slices of bread that have been toasted.
8. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
9. A large fleet.
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. A strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
13. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
14. A short theatrical episode.
20. Windowpane oysters.
22. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
30. The person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment.
34. A coterie of undesirable people.
35. Of or relating to a creed.
37. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
38. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
39. An uproarious party.
40. A vigorous blow.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. The capital and largest city of Japan.
47. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
50. A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat.
52. A town in north central Oklahoma.
54. Give an education to.
57. Informal terms for a mother.
59. An encroachment or intrusion.
64. In bed.
65. An informal term for a father.
66. Stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut.
67. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
68. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
70. Give over.
73. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
75. Water frozen in the solid state.
77. A public promotion of some product or service.
79. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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