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1. The basic unit of money in Albania.
4. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
12. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
20. English inventor who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877).
21. The money risked on a gamble.
22. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
24. The range within which a voice can be heard.
26. Before noon.
27. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
30. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
31. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
33. South African term for `boss'.
36. Squash bugs.
39. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
40. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
43. The longest division of geological time.
44. A major god.
47. A state in northwestern North America.
48. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. (Babylonian) The sky god.
54. A firearm that is held and fired with one hand.
57. A member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington.
60. 1 species.
62. English monk and scholar (672-735).
63. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
67. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
69. An informal term for a father.
73. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
77. Covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants).
78. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
79. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
81. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
82. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
83. A flammable colorless gaseous alkene.
84. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
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1. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
2. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
3. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
4. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
7. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
8. Informal terms for money.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. (Roman mythology) God of love.
11. The emotion of hate.
12. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
13. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
14. A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement.
19. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
23. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
25. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
28. An Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars.
29. Double-walled stage of the embryo succeeding the blastula.
32. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
34. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. Used of a single unit or thing.
38. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
45. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
46. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
49. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
50. A device that launches aircraft from a warship.
51. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
55. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
56. Make or become free of frost or ice.
58. A port city in southwestern Iran.
59. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
61. Being nine more than ninety.
65. Feeling or showing anger.
66. By chance.
68. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
71. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
72. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
74. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
75. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
76. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
80. An associate degree in nursing.
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