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1. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
5. A bottle with a stopper.
11. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
15. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
16. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
17. Using speech rather than writing.
18. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
23. A state in New England.
24. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
25. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
28. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
30. Genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.
32. Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves.
35. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
36. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
37. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
38. 16 ounces.
39. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
40. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
43. A state in midwestern United States.
45. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
53. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
54. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
55. Not ever.
57. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
58. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
60. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
62. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
66. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
68. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
72. A thin strip (wood or metal).
73. A cravat with wide square ends.
75. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
76. A beautiful and graceful girl.
77. Narrow platform.
79. Take in solid food.
80. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
81. A festival featuring African-American culture.
82. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. A quantity of no importance.
2. Rounded like an egg.
3. Model of excellence or perfection of a kind.
4. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. Small genus of succulent annual herbs found on sandy shores of North America and Europe.
6. Lacking a centromere.
7. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right.
12. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
13. Uttering in an irritated tone.
14. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
20. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
22. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
26. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
27. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
29. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Helios and mother of Ariadne.
31. A card game for 2 players.
33. A liquid solution that results from elution.
34. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
41. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
42. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
44. Type genus of the Ranidae.
46. Relating to exegesis.
47. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
48. Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.
49. A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong.
51. The eleventh month of the civil year.
52. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
63. A city in northwestern Syria.
64. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
65. One who works hard at boring tasks.
67. An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city.
69. (`lief' is archaic) Very willing.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
71. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
74. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
78. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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