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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. The direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes.
12. Inquire about.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood).
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. The residue that remains when something is burned.
19. Lacking a centromere.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
23. Family based on male descent.
25. Highly excited.
27. A state in New England.
29. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
37. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. Away from the right path or direction.
43. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
47. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
48. Jordan's port.
50. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
51. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
52. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
53. In bed.
56. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
58. Made of fir or pine.
59. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
61. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
65. Covered with paving material.
70. (informal) Very tired.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Favoring one person or side over another.
75. Jordan's port.
76. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. A dress crepe.
79. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
80. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
81. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. Typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects.
6. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
8. The fur of an otter.
9. A genus of hawk-like owls.
10. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
11. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
12. A city in northern India.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. (usually in the plural) A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
30. A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
35. A fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
38. Like or containing meat.
40. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
41. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement (1792-1866).
46. A genus of Ploceidae.
49. English monk and scholar (672-735).
54. Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine.
55. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
57. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
60. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
62. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
68. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
69. God of death.
73. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
74. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
78. A state in midwestern United States.
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