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1. Liquid excretory product.
4. Happening or recurring at regular intervals.
12. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
17. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
18. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
20. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
21. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
22. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
23. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
25. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
27. Australian clover fern.
29. Any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers.
31. Half the width of an em.
32. The chance to speak.
33. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
37. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
48. A person who eats human flesh.
50. The quality of being lax and neglectful.
51. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
52. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
53. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
54. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
55. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
57. A person forced to flee from home or country.
59. A New England state.
60. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
61. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
63. A Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes.
68. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
70. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
73. Common house and field crickets.
76. Toward the mouth or oral region.
77. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
78. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
80. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
81. Tear or be torn violently.
82. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964).
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
4. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
5. 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.
6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
7. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
8. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
9. Catch sight of.
10. cause to accept or become hardened to.
11. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
19. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
24. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
26. Decisively defeated in combat.
28. In operation or operational.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
34. Someone who bites.
35. A permanent council of the United Nations.
36. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
38. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
39. The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
40. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
41. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
45. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
46. A cloth having a crisscross design.
47. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
49. Something resembling the head of a nail that is used an an ornamental device.
56. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
58. An Asian temple.
62. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
64. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
65. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
66. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
67. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
69. Indicating the most important performer or role.
71. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
74. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
75. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
79. A doctor's degree in optometry.
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