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1. The cry made by sheep. 4. A person who is paid to pray for the soul of another. 12. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand. 15. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph. 16. Tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces. 17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper. 18. Hear or try a court case anew. 20. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level. 21. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water. 22. The father of your father or mother. 24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores. 25. Find repugnant. 27. Unknown god. 28. Bubble shells. 31. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America. 34. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809). 35. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor. 38. For a short time. 40. Capable of being added or added to. 41. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life. 42. A large quantity of written matter. 44. A public promotion of some product or service. 45. A periodic paperback publication. 47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 49. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle. 50. Of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Argos or its people. 52. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology. 55. City in Sudan. 57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite. 58. A bowl-shaped vessel. 59. Belonging to some prior time. 62. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 65. Being one more than one hundred. 66. An associate degree in nursing. 68. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans. 70. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 72. One celestial body obscures another v 1. 74. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon. 75. One related on the mother's side. 78. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds. 79. A master's degree in education. 80. A family of acrocarpous mosses. 81. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.

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1. A large mass of ice floating at sea. 2. Type genus of the Aceraceae. 3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey). 4. An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws. 5. A genus of Mustelidae. 6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal. 7. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes. 8. Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building. 9. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda. 10. Black tropical American cuckoo. 11. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode. 12. Any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning. 13. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter. 14. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion. 19. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients. 23. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code. 26. Obvious and dull. 29. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub. 30. A large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India. 32. Physically and mentally fatigued. 33. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania. 36. Wild or domesticated South American cudchewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump. 37. Make difficult to perceive by sight. 39. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail. 43. (Greek mythology) A woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena. 46. Rounded like an egg. 48. The Indonesian language of the people of Bali. 51. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit. 53. Garlic mayonnaise. 54. Hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel. 56. The state of existing and being localized in space. 60. Social status or position conferred by a system based on class. 61. Upright in position or posture. 63. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area). 64. Harsh or corrosive in tone. 67. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea. 69. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget. 71. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma. 73. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest. 76. A colorless and odorless inert gas. 77. Being nine more than ninety.