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1. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
4. The region of northwestern Italy.
12. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes.
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
18. A Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast.
19. (British) A local tax on property (usually used in the plural).
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
23. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
25. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
27. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
31. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
35. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
39. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
40. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
41. A canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun.
44. An awkward stupid person.
46. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
47. Anything that covers or conceals.
48. Ground snakes.
50. Having only superficial plausibility.
51. Perceive sound.
52. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
53. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
55. Something done (usually as opposed to something said).
58. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
59. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
62. The herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen.
65. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
66. Not having a musical sound or pleasing tune.
70. How long something has existed.
71. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
74. Informal terms for money.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. A pass between mountain peaks.
79. A three-year law degree.
80. Common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America.
81. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. The basic unit of money in Sweden.
3. A woman of refinement.
4. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
5. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
9. Usually large hard-shelled seed.
10. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
11. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
24. An inhabitant of Lappland.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
29. The capital of Eritrea.
30. A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot.
32. Strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco.
33. A large fleet.
34. Having or furnished with a mast.
36. A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior.
37. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
38. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
42. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
43. Painful grief.
45. The face or front of a building.
49. Being one more than eighteen.
54. A soft whitish calcite.
56. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
57. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
60. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
61. Sour or bitter in taste.
63. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
64. Undo the ties of.
67. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
68. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
69. The activity of persuading someone to buy.
72. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
73. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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