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1. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
4. Difficult to penetrate.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.
17. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
18. City in eastern Belgium.
20. An honorary degree in science.
21. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
23. A genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand.
25. A person who participates in or is skilled at some game.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937).
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
34. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
38. Formative one-cell-thick layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth.
42. American novelist (1909-1955).
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924).
48. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. Erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. The basic unit of money in Peru.
55. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
56. A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it.
58. A disorder of the glands of the body.
61. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
62. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
63. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
65. Disarrange or rumple.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. withdraw from an organization or communion.
76. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
77. A kind of person.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. The cry made by sheep.
81. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
82. City in central Iran.
83. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
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1. A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together.
2. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
3. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
4. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
5. English monk and scholar (672-735).
6. Tropical African and Indian herbs.
7. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
8. A mechanism that can move automatically.
9. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
10. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
11. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
12. Common gray wild goose of Europe.
13. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
14. (Roman mythology) God of love.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
24. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
28. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
29. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
31. A semiautomatic rifle.
36. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
37. Old World woody vines.
39. Not reflecting light.
40. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
41. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
46. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
47. The sixth month of the civil year.
50. Any activity that is easy to do.
51. A wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white.
53. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
57. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
59. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
60. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
64. A drama set to music.
66. An Eskimo hut.
67. A reason for wanting something done.
68. A member of a Finnish people of Russia.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
71. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
72. A shaped mass of baked bread.
75. A doctor's degree in education.
79. Not out.
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