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ACROSS
1. The airforce of Great Britain.
4. The dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants.
11. An informal term for a father.
15. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
16. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
17. Toward the mouth or oral region.
18. Water frozen in the solid state.
19. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
20. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
21. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
23. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
27. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
30. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
32. A family of birds of the suborder Oscines.
36. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
39. Occurring or done each day.
40. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
41. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
43. The back side of the neck.
44. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
46. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
47. 1/1000 gram.
48. A place of worship that has its own altar.
50. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture.
52. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
53. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
54. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
59. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
64. Freetail bats.
68. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
72. Make amends for.
73. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
76. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
77. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
78. Professional care for the hands and fingernails v 1.
80. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
81. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
82. The academic world.
83. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
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1. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
2. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
3. Any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers.
4. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
5. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
6. A criminal who is a member of gang.
7. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
8. A sponge cake baked in a ring mold.
9. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
12. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
22. Of or relating to or containing barium.
24. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
28. Either extremity of something that has length.
29. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
31. No longer frozen solid.
33. Garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist.
34. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
35. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
37. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
38. Given or having a specified name.
42. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
45. Thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricles of the brain and the spinal cord canal.
49. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
51. Type genus of the Amiidae.
55. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. Before noon.
57. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
58. A small cake leavened with yeast.
60. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
65. A French abbot.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
67. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
69. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
70. Young sheep.
71. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
74. (informal) Of the highest quality.
75. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
79. A state in New England.