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1. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
4. Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity.
12. A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties.
15. Estrangement from god.
16. Presence of excess lipids in the blood.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Any thick messy substance.
20. A light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt.
22. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
26. Genus of economically important tropical plants.
28. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
31. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
32. The Teutonic god of thunder.
35. (computer science) A unit for measuring computing power.
39. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
41. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
42. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
48. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
49. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
51. 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).
52. Any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants.
55. Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.
57. A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep.
60. Flesh of large European flatfish.
61. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
65. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778).
68. Port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana.
70. A furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).
72. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
73. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
74. A trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals.
77. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
78. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
79. God of dawn and light.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. State in northeastern India.
2. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
3. Edible bulb of an onion plant.
4. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
5. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
6. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
7. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
8. King of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where is was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC).
9. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
10. A small drink of liquor.
11. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
12. Plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks.
13. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
14. English writer (1925-1994).
19. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
21. True lizards.
23. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
24. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
25. Using speech rather than writing.
27. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
29. Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
33. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
34. United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980).
36. The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke.
37. United States comic actor in silent films.
38. A passage with access only at one end.
40. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
43. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
44. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
47. English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon.
50. Alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass.
53. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Orion and Columba.
54. Largest city in Washington.
56. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
58. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
59. Seed again or anew.
62. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Jordan's port.
66. Located in or toward the back or rear.
67. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
69. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
71. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
75. A Loloish language.
76. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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