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1. Long and light rowing boat.
4. (informal) Foolish.
11. Similar to the color of jade.
15. Gone by.
16. The act of arousing.
17. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
18. Late time of life.
19. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
20. Clear to the mind.
21. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
23. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
24. Moving slowly and gently.
25. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
26. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
28. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
30. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A bachelor's degree in science.
38. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
40. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Mexitil) used to treat ventricular arrhythmias.
41. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
44. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. Situated in a particular spot or position.
49. A negative.
51. The cry made by sheep.
54. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
56. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
60. Being the only one.
62. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
64. Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded.
67. Type genus of the Apogonidae.
71. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
72. A theatrical performer.
75. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
76. On or toward the lee.
78. A notable achievement.
79. Cause annoyance in.
80. An Indian gum from the dhawa tree.
81. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
2. An Eskimo hut.
3. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level.
7. A married man.
8. A person who makes use of a thing.
9. Daughter of Nehru who served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984).
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. A loose cloak with a hood.
12. Of or relating to or involving an area.
13. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
14. Suggestive of the supernatural.
22. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
27. One of the three Furies.
29. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
31. Type genus of the Apidae.
32. The quality of being fraudulent.
33. A minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services.
36. A thrusting blow with a knife.
37. British composer (1857-1934).
39. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
43. Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel.
49. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
50. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
52. In bed.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
58. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
63. A member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin.
67. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
70. A quantity of no importance.
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