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1. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
5. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
12. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
15. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
16. Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture.
17. Negation of a word or group of words.
18. Steering mechanism for a vessel.
19. Of or in or relating to the nose.
20. Jordan's port.
22. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
30. Actively or fully engaged or occupied.
31. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
34. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
36. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
37. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
39. Tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit.
43. A New England state.
45. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
48. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
49. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
52. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
54. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
55. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
57. A keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere.
59. A state in midwestern United States.
61. A blind god.
62. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
64. Informal terms for a mother.
65. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
68. A Japanese Buddhism emphasizing mystical symbolism of mantras and mudras and the Buddha's ideal which is inexpressible.
72. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
73. United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935).
76. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
77. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
78. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
80. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
81. An operating system that is on a disk.
82. Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
4. A large fleet.
5. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
6. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
7. The capital of Lesotho.
8. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
10. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
11. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
12. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
13. African antelopes.
14. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
25. Herbs, shrubs and trees.
27. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
29. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
32. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
33. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
35. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
38. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
40. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
41. A brief indulgence of your impulses.
42. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
44. An amount of time.
46. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
47. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
50. Type genus of the Burhinidae.
51. Durable fragrant wood.
53. Sturdy annual of Peru.
58. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
60. Type genus of the Amiidae.
63. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
66. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
67. Not only so, but.
69. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. A quantity of no importance.
74. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
75. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
79. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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