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1. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
4. One of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally.
12. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
17. Something that remunerates.
18. Used of a single unit or thing.
19. Medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
23. Tropical Asian starlings.
24. (Babylonian) Consort of Anshar.
26. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
28. A radioactive transuranic element.
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
33. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
34. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
38. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
41. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
42. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
43. Undo the ties of.
46. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
47. The residue that remains when something is burned.
49. Located inward.
51. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
52. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
54. An island republic on Nauru Island.
56. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
58. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
60. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
61. The wife or widow of a czar.
66. Green turtles.
70. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
71. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
72. Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989).
73. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
75. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
76. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
77. A cloth for washing dishes.
80. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
81. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
82. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
3. A formal expression of praise.
4. Not reflecting light.
5. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
6. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
7. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
8. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
9. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
10. Framework for holding objects.
11. Start burning.
12. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. The eighth month of the civil year.
22. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
25. The fifth month of the Hindu calendar.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
32. A member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin.
35. The fourth or lowest deck.
36. Being eight more than fifty.
37. A steep descent of the water of a river.
39. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
40. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
44. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
45. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
48. A source of great wealth (especially a mine).
50. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
53. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
55. Type genus of the Amiidae.
57. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
62. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
63. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
64. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
65. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
67. An opening into or through something.
68. 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.
69. A Loloish language.
74. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
78. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
79. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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