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1. 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.
4. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.
12. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
15. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
16. Not suitable or right or appropriate.
17. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
18. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
20. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
21. A genus of Indriidae.
23. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
24. English monk and scholar (672-735).
26. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
27. Of or being the lowest female voice.
30. A language group of the Hokan family.
32. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
33. A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.
36. Make a subtraction.
37. A crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin).
39. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
42. A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior.
43. A statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
52. Pearl oysters.
54. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
55. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
56. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
59. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. A large number or amount.
64. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
67. A colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic.
72. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
74. Having two horns or horn-shaped parts.
75. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
78. The cry made by sheep.
79. An audiotape recording of sound.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
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1. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. British informal.
4. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
5. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
6. Rate of revolution of a motor.
7. Taken or to be taken at random.
8. The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine.
9. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
10. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
14. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer.
19. A card game for 2 players.
25. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
28. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
29. Used of mouth or eyes.
31. The month following July and preceding September.
34. Presence of white blood cells in the urine.
35. A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water.
38. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
40. A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound.
41. Type genus of the Bramidae.
44. The act of scanning.
45. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
46. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
48. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
50. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
51. By bad luck.
53. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
57. Type genus of the Rhyniaceae.
58. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
61. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
63. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
65. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
66. The handle of a weapon or tool.
68. A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it.
69. A large number or amount.
70. Using speech rather than writing.
71. Type genus of the Anatidae.
73. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
76. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
77. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
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