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1. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
4. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
12. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
17. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
18. A harsh noise made by scraping.
20. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
21. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
22. (Spanish) Sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water.
24. Lower in esteem.
26. Indigo bush.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. A Loloish language.
32. God of death.
34. An informal term for a father.
38. The cry made by sheep.
40. Irish abbess.
42. One or some or every or all without specification.
43. An associate degree in nursing.
45. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
46. Of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language.
50. A periodic paperback publication.
51. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
53. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
55. Being two more than ninety.
57. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
58. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
61. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
63. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
67. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
70. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
71. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
73. Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible.
76. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
77. The basic unit of money in Uganda.
79. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
80. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
81. Testacean rhizopods.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Express or utter with a hiss.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. An account describing incidents or events.
4. Type genus of the Nepidae.
5. A town in western Washington.
6. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
7. Italian Benedictine monk who was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
8. An enclosed space.
9. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
10. God of the earth.
11. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
12. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
13. By bad luck.
14. A slender double-reed instrument.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
27. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
30. (Swahili) A long garment (usually white) with long sleeves.
31. English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992).
33. Wholly absorbed as in thought.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
39. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
41. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
44. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
47. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
48. A genus of Peramelidae.
49. A person forced to flee from home or country.
52. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
54. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
56. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
59. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
60. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
62. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
64. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
69. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
74. In or of the month preceding the present one.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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