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1. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
4. Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
11. Of or relating to near the ear.
15. An electrically charged particle.
16. Singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs).
17. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
18. Being five more than ninety.
19. Continuing forever or indefinitely.
20. Indicating the most important performer or role.
21. A card game for 2 players.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
25. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
33. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
40. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
42. 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.
43. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
45. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
48. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
49. The event of dying or departure from life.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
54. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
56. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
57. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
58. The father of your father or mother.
61. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
63. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
67. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
75. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
76. Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968).
78. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
81. On or toward the lee.
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1. (of a number) Having a fixed and unchanging value.
2. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
3. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
4. Preliminary drawing for later elaboration.
5. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
6. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
7. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
8. Not present.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean.
11. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
12. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
13. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
14. An island in the Mediterranean.
22. A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.
26. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
28. The face or front of a building.
30. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. Consisting of or made up of bone.
35. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
37. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
38. An ability that has been acquired by training.
39. (botany) Especially of leaves.
41. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
44. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
46. In bed.
47. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
50. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
53. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
55. A native of ancient Troy.
59. Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast.
60. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
62. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
64. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
65. A genus of Mustelidae.
66. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
68. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
69. The highest level or degree attainable.
70. Any loose flowing garment.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. Gone by.
77. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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