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1. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
4. Bar from attention or consideration.
11. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Obtain from someone after their death.
17. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings.
18. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
20. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
21. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
22. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
24. Relating to or using sight.
26. A group of countries in special alliance.
28. A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs).
29. Fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air.
32. A severe rebuke.
35. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
37. Being one more than one hundred.
39. Full of or showing high-spirited merriment.
40. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
43. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
45. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
47. By bad luck.
49. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
50. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
51. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
52. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
54. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
55. One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.
58. Kauri pine.
60. Type genus of the Anatidae.
62. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
63. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
68. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
71. A city in northwestern Syria.
72. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. Something causes misery or death.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. Black tropical American cuckoo.
79. The mother of your father or mother.
80. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
81. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. Informal terms for a meal.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. Taken or to be taken at random.
4. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
5. Not out.
6. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
7. A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.
8. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
9. A cylindrical tower used for storing silage.
10. Tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels.
11. Relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation.
12. Show a response or a reaction to something.
13. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
19. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
23. A French abbot.
25. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
27. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
30. A hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females.
31. (archaic) Strict and severe.
33. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
34. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
36. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
38. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
41. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
42. Offering fun and gaiety.
44. A small fragment.
46. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
48. Located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture.
53. A decree that prohibits something.
56. Come to pass.
57. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
61. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
64. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
65. A Russian river.
66. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
67. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
69. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
70. Characteristic of false pride.
73. The force of workers available.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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