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1. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. That which weakens or causes a loss of strength.
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
18. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
19. A white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. A formation of people or things one beside another.
24. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
27. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
32. A resource.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. Of or relating to neuroglia.
41. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
43. Letters and packages that are transported by aircraft.
44. (informal) Roused to anger.
45. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
46. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
51. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
54. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
55. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
57. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
58. A master's degree in business.
60. Music performed for dancing the polka.
64. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
68. Loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging.
70. An island of central Hawaii.
71. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
74. A small cake leavened with yeast.
75. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
76. A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa.
79. (British) Your grandmother.
80. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
81. A rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
2. Used of men.
3. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
4. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
5. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
6. Large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area.
7. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
8. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
9. Black tropical American cuckoo.
10. 1 species.
11. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
12. A woman of refinement.
13. Not only so, but.
14. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
28. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
29. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
30. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
31. English monk and scholar (672-735).
33. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
34. Deciduous shrub of North America.
35. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
36. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
40. 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.
42. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
47. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
48. A light touch or stroke.
49. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
50. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
52. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
53. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
56. Rate of revolution of a motor.
59. A genus of Platalea.
61. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
65. Any competition.
66. Belonging to some prior time.
67. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
69. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
72. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
73. A unit of pressure.
77. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
78. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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