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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
12. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
15. Fiddler crabs.
16. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
20. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
21. Having three dimensions.
23. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
25. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
26. Food for domestic livestock.
28. A small lump or protuberance.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. (used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.
34. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
36. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
38. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
41. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
46. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
50. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
51. Put down by force or intimidation.
53. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
55. A Loloish language.
57. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
58. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
62. Included seven times in every 19 years.
64. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
66. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
68. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
71. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
73. Selected as the best.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. A city in the European part of Russia.
78. A (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort.
80. (informal) Roused to anger.
81. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
82. The father of your father or mother.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
2. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. Any of various units of capacity.
5. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
6. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
8. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
9. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
12. The state of owing money.
13. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
14. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
19. Remove the fangs from (canines, snakes, etc.).
22. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
24. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
27. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
29. Elder brother of Krishna.
32. A sculpture representing a human or animal.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
37. A diacritical mark (u-curved) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound.
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
42. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A city in southeastern Germany.
48. Gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.
49. A woman of refinement.
52. The brightest star in Cygnus.
54. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
56. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
59. An honorary degree in science.
61. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
63. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
65. A high tight collar.
67. The capital of Switzerland.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. An informal term for a father.
72. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
74. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
75. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
79. An informal term for a father.
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