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1. The seventh and last day of the week.
4. To work at or to absurd length.
12. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
15. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
16. Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi.
17. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
18. The month following July and preceding September.
19. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bahama Islands or their inhabitants.
20. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
23. Consent reluctantly.
25. On or toward the lee.
28. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
29. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
32. A long-playing phonograph record.
33. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
37. A desert in southern Israel.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
42. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
43. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
45. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
47. A vigorous blow.
48. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
51. Jordan's port.
53. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
54. Fragile branching stoneworts.
55. A Mid-Atlantic state.
57. 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.
58. Being nine more than fifty.
63. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
66. Of or relating to or involving an area.
69. The organic process of bearing flowers.
73. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
74. A customary way of operation or behavior.
76. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
77. Of a cask or barrel.
80. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
81. Step on it.
82. A festival featuring African-American culture.
83. Produced by a manufacturing process.
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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
3. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
4. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
5. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
6. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
7. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. (informal) Of very poor quality.
9. State in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.
10. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
11. A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
12. (an Irish term of address expressing affection) Darling.
13. The act of swimming.
14. Divulge information or secrets.
22. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
24. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. In a foreign country.
30. (South African) An ear of corn.
31. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
34. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
35. The third month of the civil year.
36. Common house and field crickets.
38. A garment that covers the head and face.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
46. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
49. Diffusing warmth and friendliness.
51. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
52. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
56. The cry made by sheep.
59. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
62. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
72. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
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