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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Over the side of a boat.
12. A light touch or stroke.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A person who makes (and sells) perfumes.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. In a wasteful manner.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. Not only so, but.
27. In operation or operational.
28. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
30. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. A lyric poet.
37. Small shrimp-like crustaceans.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
44. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
48. The fatty flesh of eel.
50. 16 ounces.
51. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
53. A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.
56. Someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers.
57. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
59. The eleventh month of the civil year.
62. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. An enclosed space.
76. Offer as a sacrifice by killing.
78. Made warm or hot.
79. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
80. A member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr peninsula in Siberia.
81. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. A quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
5. Any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
8. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
9. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
10. Completely lacking.
11. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
12. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
13. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
14. Common Indian weaverbird.
21. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
23. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
24. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
29. United States filmmaker (1902-1981).
32. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
34. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
35. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
36. Depressing in character or appearance.
38. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
40. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
42. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
45. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
46. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
49. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
52. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
54. Capital of Vanuatu.
55. An informal term for a father.
58. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
60. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
61. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
63. Russian country house.
64. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
65. The event of dying or departure from life.
67. Related to or located at the back.
68. God of love and erotic desire.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
72. Estrangement from god.
73. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
74. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
77. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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