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1. A licensed medical practitioner.
4. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
16. Of or relating to or characteristic of Lebanon or its people.
17. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
18. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
19. Of or like a cecum.
20. Affect with wonder.
22. The state of being behind in payments.
24. A New England state.
26. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
27. Any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
33. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
37. A category in some early taxonomies.
39. Socialist who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895).
41. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
42. The capital of Western Samoa.
43. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
44. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
46. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
47. (Greek mythology) The brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.
49. 10 grams.
51. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
53. Covered with paving material.
55. A polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium.
57. The highest level or degree attainable.
59. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
60. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
65. Somewhat soft.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
72. Being nine more than ninety.
74. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
75. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
76. One of the 4-year intervals between Olympic Games.
79. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
80. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. The organ that bears the ovules of a flower.
3. A genus of Pyralidae.
4. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
5. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
6. Excessively fat.
7. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. Sottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721).
10. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
11. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
12. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
13. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
14. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
21. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
23. Related on the mother's side.
25. Any of various devices for taking hold of objects.
28. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
31. The capital of Nationalist China.
32. Decisively defeated in combat.
34. (in writing) See below.
35. A viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person.
36. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
38. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
40. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
45. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
48. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
50. (informal) Fortitude and determination.
52. The distance around a person's body.
54. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
56. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
62. On or toward the lee.
64. Trace the shape of.
66. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
67. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
68. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
70. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
73. An accountant certified by the state.
77. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
78. Being one more than one.
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