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1. The compass point that is one point south of southwest.
5. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Time during which some action is awaited.
16. 1 species.
17. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
18. A resident of Arkansas.
20. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
22. A woman of aristocratic family.
23. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. Sea milkwort.
29. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
35. The sixth month of the civil year.
37. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
40. Not easy.
43. Irritate or vex.
44. One ten thousandth of a centner.
46. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
47. Being one more than ten.
50. Web spinners.
53. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
54. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
56. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
57. The capital of Switzerland.
60. Costing 10 dollars.
61. Of or relating to or involving an area.
64. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
65. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
69. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
72. A state in midwestern United States.
73. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
74. Goddess of fertility.
75. (Phoenician) A fertility goddess.
78. A state of southwestern India.
79. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
80. A genus of the family Droseraceae.
81. Late time of life.
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1. An equal exchange.
2. Articles of the same kind or material.
3. A motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame.
4. (British informal) Stark naked.
5. A battle in the Seven Years' War (1757).
6. Squash bugs.
7. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. (of birds) Having developed feathers or plumage.
10. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
13. Any of various small biting flies.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A condition requiring relief.
21. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
24. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
30. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
31. Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.
32. Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free).
33. Someone who abuses.
34. Someone who drives a bus.
36. Free from liquid or moisture.
38. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
41. Before noon.
42. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
45. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
48. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
49. (British) Your grandmother.
51. A Brazilian river.
52. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
55. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
58. A rotund individual.
59. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
62. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
63. A town in north central Oklahoma.
66. A feeling of intense anger.
67. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
70. (informal) Roused to anger.
71. A unit of pressure.
76. An associate degree in nursing.
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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