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1. A master's degree in business. 4. Turn into cheese, of milk. 11. A thrusting blow with a knife. 15. An awkward stupid person. 16. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage. 17. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept. 18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 19. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the keel of a ship. 21. Any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates. 24. Make less active or intense. 26. Hold back. 29. An ugly evil-looking old woman. 33. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia. 36. Jordan's port. 38. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers. 41. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature. 43. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match. 44. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing. 45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma. 46. A ray of moonlight. 48. A language of Australian aborigines. 50. Howler monkeys. 51. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines. 53. Half the width of an em. 54. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast. 55. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon. 58. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula. 61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 64. Imperial moths. 68. A genus of Ploceidae. 70. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves. 72. A city in northern India. 73. A human limb. 74. Of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of of taxonomic classification that he proposed. 77. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere. 78. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water. 79. Time for play or diversion. 80. A small amount of residue.
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1. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water. 2. Used as a Hindi courtesy title. 3. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance. 4. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals. 5. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland). 6. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981). 7. Minute single-celled green freshwater organism having a single flagella. 8. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice. 9. A slight amount or degree of difference. 10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object). 11. Lean end of the neck. 12. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane. 13. God of fire. 14. Cattle that are reared for their meat. 20. God of wealth and love. 22. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds. 23. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot. 25. A thermosetting resin. 27. The bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids. 28. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy. 30. A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer. 31. Wear away through erosion or vaporization. 32. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly. 34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples. 35. Wood of a sumac. 37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 39. A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound. 40. Derived by copying something else. 42. An intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped. 47. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. 49. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs. 52. State capital of New York. 56. A state in midwestern United States. 57. British composer (1857-1934). 59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine. 60. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws. 62. A former copper coin of Pakistan. 63. Advanced in years. 65. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes. 66. 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. 67. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng. 69. Any high mountain. 71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots. 75. Being nine more than forty. 76. A Mid-Atlantic state.