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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. Inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination.
12. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. A small piece of cloth.
19. Possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge).
20. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A human limb.
24. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
26. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
27. Selected as the best.
29. Before noon.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
33. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
37. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
40. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people.
45. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
47. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
49. By bad luck.
50. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
52. A city in northwestern Syria.
54. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
55. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
59. A Hindu prince or king in India.
61. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
64. An obsolete kind of container used for distillation.
67. (of exocrine glands) Producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell.
71. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
74. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
75. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
76. An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.
78. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
79. A doctor's degree in education.
80. Small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice.
81. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
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1. A city in northern India.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
4. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
5. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
6. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.
7. Any competition.
8. A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
9. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
10. Conducive to peace.
11. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
12. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
13. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
22. (medicine) Chilly.
25. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
28. At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.
30. Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit.
34. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
35. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
36. American inventor.
38. English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605).
39. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
41. An associate degree in nursing.
43. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
51. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
53. Of structural members especially of concrete.
56. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
57. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
58. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
60. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
62. English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731).
63. A white trivalent metallic element.
65. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
66. A town in north central Oklahoma.
68. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
69. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
70. (prefix) Within.
72. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
73. The sign language used in the United States.
77. In operation or operational.
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