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1. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
5. Covered with paving material.
12. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
15. The basic unit of money on Malta.
16. The act of storing something.
17. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
18. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
19. A paved surface in the form of a strip.
20. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
21. Building material used as siding or roofing.
23. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
24. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
26. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
28. Of inferior or mixed breed.
30. Clean refuse from.
35. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
38. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
39. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
42. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
44. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
45. A copy of a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together).
46. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
47. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
49. A chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline.
51. Any high mountain.
52. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
54. Impossible to use.
56. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
57. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
59. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
64. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
70. Capital and largest city of Italy.
71. An industrial city in the European part of Russia.
74. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
75. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
76. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. Adopted in order to deceive.
80. Continually complaining or faultfinding.
81. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. By bad luck.
2. Possessing material wealth.
3. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
4. Russian mathematician (1856-1922).
5. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
6. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
7. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
8. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
9. American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799).
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. United States biochemist (born in Germany) who studied the metabolism of muscles (1884-1951).
12. Sour or bitter in taste.
13. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.
14. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
22. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
25. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
29. A radioactive transuranic element.
31. A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles.
32. Jordan's port.
33. A large number or amount.
34. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
36. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.
37. A simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil.
40. Falcon-headed solar god.
41. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
43. Jordan's port.
48. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
50. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
53. Relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska.
55. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
63. The longest river of Asia.
65. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
66. A special way of doing something.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
69. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
77. In operation or operational.
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