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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Coat with a patina.
12. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
15. A unit of pain intensity.
16. An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs.
17. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in JudeoChristian mythology.
18. Black tropical American cuckoo. 19.The act of making a noisy disturbance.
20. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
22. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
24. German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896).
25. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
26. A city in northwestern Syria.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
31. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
33. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. An affirmative.
41. The brightest star in Ursa Minor.
42. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
43. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
47. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
48. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
52. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
55. A Hindu prince or king in India. 56.The work of caring for or attending to
someone or something.
57. Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration.
59. The residue that remains when something is burned.
61. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
65. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
69. Inquire about.
72. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
73. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
75. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
76. A drug combination found in some overthe-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
77. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.
79. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
80. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
81. Edit and correct (written or printed material).
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. The fifth of the seven canonical hours.
3. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
4. A fine closely woven cotton fabric.
5. Largest known toad species.
6. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
7. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
8. The state that precedes vomiting.
9. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
10. A light strong gray lustrous corrosionresistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
11. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
12. Large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard.
13. Rounded like an egg.
14. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
21. Jordan's port.
23. Of the color of black ink.
27. Being one more than fifty.
28. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
32. Weapon consisting of a fighting ax.
34. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
35. Originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s.
36. Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
38. Any taillike structure.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. Register formally.
45. Two items of the same kind.
46. 36th President of the United States.
49. Clouding of the natural lens of the eye.
50. Of or like a feeble old woman.
51. Durable fragrant wood.
53. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
58. A Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa.
60. Having or joined by a seam or seams.
63. Fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
67. A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.
68. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. God of love and erotic desire.
74. A tight-fitting headdress.
78. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.