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1. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
4. Poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia.
17. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
18. A master's degree in education.
19. Langur of southern Asia.
20. 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).
21. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
23. A woman sahib.
25. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
26. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
27. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. God of the sky.
33. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
36. A republic in southeastern Europe.
40. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
42. A master's degree in religion.
43. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
50. The state of owing money.
52. Beet lacking swollen root.
54. In an unnatural eery manner.
57. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. On or toward the lee.
60. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
62. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
64. Characteristic of a mother.
68. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
72. Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel.
73. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
78. Goat grass.
80. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
81. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
82. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
83. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
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1. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
2. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
3. A genus of Ploceidae.
4. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
5. Type genus of the Ranidae.
6. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
7. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
8. Sacred writings of Orthodox Judaism.
9. A small island.
10. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
11. A male massager.
12. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
13. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
14. United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980).
22. (nautical) Of an anchor.
24. State in northeastern India.
29. Fallow deer.
31. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
32. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
34. Suggestive of the supernatural.
35. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
37. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
38. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
39. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
41. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. A tort consisting of false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person.
51. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
53. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
55. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
56. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
58. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
61. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
63. Large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors.
65. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
66. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
67. The habitation of wild animals.
69. An inhabitant of Lappland.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
79. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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