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1. Informal terms for the mouth.
4. Small soft-furred South and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. Disparaging terms for the common people.
20. Widely known and esteemed.
21. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. The content of cognition.
23. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
25. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
27. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
28. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
30. The eleventh month of the civil year.
32. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression.
36. An animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning.
40. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
42. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
43. The fatty flesh of eel.
45. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
46. Any thick messy substance.
47. An indistinct shapeless form.
49. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
50. Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel.
53. Rank-smelling tropical American pigweed.
57. A Formosan language.
59. An image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels.
61. One of the six playing periods into which the game of polo is divided.
65. A French abbot.
68. Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range.
70. Found along western Atlantic coast.
72. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
74. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
79. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
80. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
81. Large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Little known Kamarupan languages.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing.
4. A master's degree in fine arts.
5. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
7. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
8. A slender double-reed instrument.
9. United States jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971).
10. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
11. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
12. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
13. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
14. A primeval personification of air and breath.
19. An island in the south Pacific.
24. The capital of Croatia.
26. Offering little or no hope.
29. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
31. Of or contained in or performing the function of the veins.
34. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
35. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
37. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
38. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
39. A sudden very loud noise.
41. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
44. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
48. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
51. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
52. A proportion multiplied by 100.
54. Possessing material wealth.
55. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
56. A long-handled oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward.
58. Large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout.
60. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
62. A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. A lyric poet.
67. A very troublesome child.
69. Be teeming, be abuzz.
71. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
73. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
77. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
78. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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