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1. A proportion multiplied by 100.
4. A step to one side (as in boxing or dancing).
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
15. A strong emotion.
16. Make a half turn on a horse, in dressage.
17. A boy or man.
18. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
20. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
23. Unknown god.
24. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
25. A heavy precious metallic element.
26. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
28. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
29. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
31. The cry made by sheep.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
35. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
40. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
44. Very dark black.
47. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
48. Hungarian playwright (1878-1952).
50. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
51. Slightly open.
53. In full operation.
54. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
55. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
58. (informal) Roused to anger.
61. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
63. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
65. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars.
68. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
72. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
73. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
76. The sacred city of Lamaism.
77. A human limb.
78. Be earlier in time.
81. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
82. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
83. A great raja.
84. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
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1. Small songbirds resembling larks.
2. Highly concentrated or intense.
3. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
4. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
5. A state in midwestern United States.
6. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
7. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
8. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
9. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. The ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary.
12. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
13. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
14. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
19. A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
30. Small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods.
34. Having made preparations.
36. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
37. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
38. Highly excited.
39. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
41. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
42. A yellow quartz.
43. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
45. Before noon.
46. A cgs unit of work or energy.
49. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
52. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
56. A deep bow.
57. (informal) Of the highest quality.
59. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
60. Flat tableland with steep edges.
62. Used facetiously.
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
69. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
70. A small island.
71. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
74. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
75. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
79. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
80. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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