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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. A city in southwestern California east of Los Angeles.
12. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Inability to urinate.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
19. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
20. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
21. Tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
26. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
29. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
31. Make reference to.
34. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
36. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
43. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
45. Small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery.
47. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
48. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. A highwayman who robs on foot.
56. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
57. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
65. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
68. A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty.
72. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
73. The mane of a horse.
76. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
77. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. Of or relating to acetone.
79. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
80. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
81. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine.
82. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
4. South African writer (1903-1988).
5. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
6. A quantity of money.
7. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
8. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
9. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. State in northeastern India.
12. A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid.
13. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
14. A quantity of no importance.
22. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
28. An enclosed space.
30. A city in northern India.
32. Any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling.
33. Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A large fleet.
38. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
39. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
49. Someone who advances.
52. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
53. Heat beforehand.
54. An additional (usually a second) count.
55. Chief port of Yemen.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
63. The month following March and preceding May.
64. A daughter of your brother or sister.
66. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
70. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
71. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
74. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
75. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
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