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1. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
5. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
15. A native American tent.
16. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.
17. An awkward stupid person.
18. (Welsh) A warrior god.
19. The convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. The capital of the state of Kansas.
23. A Mid-Atlantic state.
24. A seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales.
26. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
29. Being nine more than ninety.
30. A bachelor's degree in religion.
32. Lower in esteem.
33. An industrial city in southern China.
38. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
44. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
45. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
48. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
54. Concerning or dwelling or situated in a wood.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
58. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
59. A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music.
62. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
63. A notable achievement.
65. An instinctive motive.
68. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
72. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
75. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
76. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
77. The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states.
80. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
81. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
82. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
83. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
2. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
3. Type genus of the Upupidae.
4. Orange liqueur with lemon juice and brandy.
5. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Stick of wax with a wick in the middle.
8. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
9. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
10. Again but in a new or different way.
11. Thinking again about a choice previously made.
12. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
13. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
14. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
27. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
28. (of the feet of some animals) Not webbed.
31. Bar temporarily.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A port city in western South Korea on the Yellow Sea.
36. A state in the western United States.
37. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
43. A former province of western France in the Loire valley.
46. A tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave.
47. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
49. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
50. Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
53. The highest level or degree attainable.
56. An active volcano in southwestern Mexico.
60. To fix or set securely or deeply.
61. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located.
64. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
66. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
67. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone.
69. Free from risk or danger.
70. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
78. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
79. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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