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1. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
4. A palace and fortress built in Granada by the Moslems in the Middle Ages.
12. Give a nickname to.
15. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
16. Sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching).
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
19. Harass or assault sexually.
20. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
22. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
24. A Chemakuan language spoken by the Chemakum people.
25. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
26. A fit of shivering.
28. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Being here now.
34. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
38. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
41. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
48. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
49. Feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat.
51. An awkward stupid person.
54. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
55. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
58. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
60. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
61. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
62. South American caracara.
67. Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
77. A poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups.
78. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
79. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
80. A festival featuring African-American culture.
81. A city in northwestern Syria.
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1. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
2. A Russian river.
3. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
5. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
6. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
7. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
8. A faulty shot in billiards.
9. A person who travels through the water by swimming.
10. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
11. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
12. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
13. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
14. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
21. Pacific newts.
23. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
27. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
31. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
32. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
33. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
35. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
36. Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes.
37. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
39. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
40. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
42. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
43. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
47. 1/10 gram.
50. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
52. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
53. God of love and erotic desire.
56. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
57. A large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout.
59. Of or relating to a dialect of Sotho or the Bantu people who speak it.
63. In bed.
64. Avatar of Vishnu.
65. Make small marks into the surface of.
66. A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.
68. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
69. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
70. Gather, as of as crops.
73. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
74. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
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