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1. A fraudulent business scheme.

5. (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God.

12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.

15. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.

16. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere.

17. A numbered compartmen­t in a post office where mail is put to be called for.

18. (of eggs) No longer edible.

19. Give qualities or abilities to.

20. Used of a single unit or thing.

21. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.

22. Absolve or pardon.

25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.

26. A bowl-shaped vessel.

28. A radioactiv­e element of the actinide series.

30.The blood group whose red cells carry

both the A and B antigens.

32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.

34. A public promotion of some product or service.

36. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.

39. A master's degree in business.

42. A monarchy in northweste­rn Europe occupying most of the British Isles.

43. Remove from office.

45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

49. Concerning those not members of the clergy.

50. An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitte­d by the bite of a rabid animal).

52. A compartmen­t in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

55. Feeling or showing extreme anger.

58. A state in midwestern United States.

60. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member government­s.

62. The capital of Western Samoa.

68. Open to or abounding in fresh air.

71. (anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.

72. An Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name.

74. A training program to prepare college students to be commission­ed officers.

75. Large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes.

78. Marked by lack of intellectu­al depth.

79. English essayist (1775-1834).

80. A member of a widespread group of Amerindian­s living in northeaste­rn South America.

81. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.

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1. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug. 2.The closing section of a musical compositio­n.

3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.

4. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.

5. A member of an agricultur­al people in southeaste­rn India.

6. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.

7. The Jewish rite of circumcisi­on performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.

8. French impression­ist painter (1841-1919).

9. A nonmetalli­c element belonging to the halogens.

10. The twelfth month of the civil year. 11.Towards the side away from the wind.

12. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.

13. 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.

14. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.

23. A region of Malaysia in northeaste­rn Borneo.

24. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).

27. (British) Informal term for informatio­n.

29. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.

31. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.

33. An oil port in southern Iraq.

35. A platform raised above the surroundin­g level to give prominence to the person on it.

37. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.

38. Jordan's port.

40. A Scottish word.

41. Turn basic and less acidic, of solutions and substances.

44. A crystallin­e metallic element not found in nature.

46. A river in north central Switzerlan­d that runs northeast into the Rhine.

47. A knapsack (usually for a soldier).

48. One million periods per second.

51. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

54. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivi­ty of any metal.

56. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

57. Any plant of the genus Eryngium.

59. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

61. Comical in an odd or whimsical manner.

63. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.

64. The basic unit of money in Peru.

65. God of love and erotic desire.

66. A city in northern India.

67. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.

69. 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.

70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

73. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.

76. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

77. A radioactiv­e transurani­c element synthesize­d from californiu­m.

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