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1. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
4. Any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water.
12. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Plants having flowers in umbels.
17. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
18. A boy or man.
19. Oceanic sharks.
20. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
21. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
23. God of fire.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
33. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
35. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
36. A visual display of information.
40. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
44. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
46. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
49. A period of time spent sleeping.
50. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
54. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
56. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
59. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. An equal exchange.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. A clay pipe with a short stem.
73. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells.
77. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
78. Characteristic of a mob.
79. A mountainous province of central Sudan.
80. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
5. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
6. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
7. Hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel.
8. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
11. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
12. A drama set to music.
13. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
14. A particular environment or walk of life.
22. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
24. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
30. Made tough by habitual exposure.
31. A person from whom you are descended.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
34. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
37. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
38. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
39. Secured or held in place by tape.
41. Used in combination to denote the middle.
42. Precisely as stated.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. Christian holiday.
47. Having relatively few calories.
48. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
51. At or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other.
53. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
55. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
61. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
63. One thousand grams.
64. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
70. A light touch or stroke.
71. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
72. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
76. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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