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1. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
4. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
12. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist.
17. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
18. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
19. Revise or reorganize, esp. for the purpose of updating and improving.
20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
24. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. Before noon.
29. The face of a timepiece.
31. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Collect or gather.
38. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
39. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
41. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
42. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
45. Minor or subordinate.
47. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
48. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
50. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
52. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
54. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
56. Type genus of the Haemulidae.
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
60. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
62. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
64. People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
70. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
73. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
75. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
76. Having or manifesting or inspiring hope.
78. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
79. A master's degree in education.
80. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
81. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. River in eastern Asia.
4. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
5. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
6. The money risked on a gamble.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
9. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
10. Not out.
11. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
12. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
21. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
23. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
27. A Loloish language.
28. A mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf.
30. Small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal.
32. Included seven times in every 19 years.
33. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
36. Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals.
37. Characterized by absence of emotional agitation.
40. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
43. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
44. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
46. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
49. (Roman Catholic Church) A devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days.
51. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
55. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
59. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
61. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
63. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
65. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
66. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
67. Largest known toad species.
68. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
69. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
71. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
72. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
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