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1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. Small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia.
12. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. Used as an Italian courtesy title.
20. Lying face upward.
22. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
23. (used of soaps or cleaning agents) Having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness.
24. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
25. Become ground down or deteriorate.
28. Someone who plies a trade.
30. Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93).
33. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
37. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
38. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
44. A resort city in western Florida.
45. The cry made by sheep.
47. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
49. 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.
50. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
52. (informal) Exceptionally good.
55. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
60. A state in southeastern United States.
62. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
64. Rub elbows with.
66. A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea.
69. A city and port in northern Jutland.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings.
77. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
78. A boy or man.
79. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
81. Used of a single unit or thing.
82. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
83. One-hundredth of a right angle.
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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
2. An elaborate song for solo voice.
3. A workman employed to pack things into containers.
4. A unit of pressure.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
6. (architecture) A triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent).
7. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
8. (nautical) Of an anchor.
9. Having a shell or or containing shell.
10. A woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry).
11. (Babylonian) The sky god.
12. Set down according to a plan.
13. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
14. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
19. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
21. From 230 million to 280 million years ago.
26. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
27. The largest city of Cameroon.
29. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
31. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
32. Type genus of the Amiidae.
34. (of actions or states) Slightly short of or not quite accomplished.
35. 1 species.
36. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
39. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
41. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
43. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
47. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
49. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
57. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
62. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
64. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
67. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
72. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
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