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1. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
5. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
11. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
15. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
16. A bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle.
17. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
18. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
19. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
20. Of or relating to the dura mater.
21. Liquid excretory product.
23. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
26. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
28. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
30. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
32. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
36. One thousand periods per second.
42. (golf) In match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
48. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
49. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances).
50. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
52. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
54. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
55. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
57. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
59. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
61. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. A chemical substance used in fumigation.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. The reasoning involved in making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation.
74. The month following April and preceding June.
75. A kind of person.
76. Robber flies.
77. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
78. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
79. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
80. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
2. (Roman mythology) God of love.
3. Silkworm moths.
4. Any movable possession (especially articles of clothing).
5. The unit of frequency.
6. The locus of feelings and intuitions.
7. Muslim name for God.
8. Largest crested screamer.
9. Type genus of the Majidae.
10. Before noon.
11. Grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units.
12. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
13. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
14. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
22. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
24. The cry made by sheep.
27. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
29. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
31. Physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Of or relating to or involving an area.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
39. Measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube.
40. Being eight more than fifty.
41. A woman gossip.
43. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
45. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
46. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
53. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
66. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
69. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
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