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1. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
4. Deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America.
12. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
15. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
16. Convert into, or infiltrate with melanin.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. Pass by, as of time.
20. A city in Veneto.
22. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
24. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
27. French novelist.
29. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
32. Make less active or intense.
34. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
38. An official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it.
40. A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
42. (in Scotland) A child.
43. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
46. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
47. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
49. A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
54. A monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species).
56. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
61. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
64. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
66. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
71. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
74. The sixth month of the civil year.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
80. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
81. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
82. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
83. Not having rhyme.
84. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
3. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
4. A primeval personification of air and breath.
5. The fatty flesh of eel.
6. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
7. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
8. Remove from political office.
9. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
10. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
11. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.
12. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
13. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.
14. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
21. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
23. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
25. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
26. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
28. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
30. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
31. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
33. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
35. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
36. Of or relating to or constituting the Scandinavian group of languages.
37. Place a value on.
39. An unforeseen obstacle.
41. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
44. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
45. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
48. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
51. (Greek mythology) Monster with nine heads.
55. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
57. To gain with effort.
58. Rapid and indistinct speech.
62. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
63. Lower in esteem.
65. A telegram sent abroad.
67. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
70. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
72. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
73. An elaborate song for solo voice.
75. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
76. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
77. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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