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1. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
5. An insufficient quantity or number.
12. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
15. Using speech rather than writing.
16. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
20. Very great or intense.
21. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
22. Shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
27. The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented.
35. Follower of Rastafarianism.
39. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
40. Lower in esteem.
41. 3 to 30 kilohertz.
45. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
46. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
48. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
49. By bad luck.
51. A French abbot.
55. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
58. Capable of being supported by argument.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
64. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
67. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
71. Adorned by inlays.
74. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
75. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
76. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
78. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
79. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
80. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
81. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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1. French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875).
2. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
3. A woman of refinement.
4. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
5. The basic unit of money in Macao.
6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
8. Provide what is desired or needed, esp. support, food or sustenance.
9. To say or state again.
10. Move or stir about violently.
11. Member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. A genus of Paridae.
23. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
26. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
28. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
30. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
32. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
33. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
34. Render capable or able for some task.
36. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
37. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
38. A radioactive transuranic element.
42. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
43. A state in midwestern United States.
44. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
47. (Old Testament) An Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people (circa 626-587 BC).
50. A town in northern Egypt.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
53. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. (prefix) Half or partial.
57. A port city in southwestern Iran.
59. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
60. Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
65. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
66. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
68. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
69. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
70. An elaborate song for solo voice.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
77. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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