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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Situated between the earth and the moon.
12. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
15. Any high mountain.
16. (anatomy) A notch or small hollow.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
22. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. (Welsh) Underworld god.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. The highest level or degree attainable.
31. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
32. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
35. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
44. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
46. Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit.
49. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
54. (Roman Catholic Church) A book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year.
55. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
56. A quantity of no importance.
57. A tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator.
59. Worn until no longer useful.
61. A state in midwestern United States.
67. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Organized opposition to authority.
75. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
76. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
77. The state capital of South Australia.
79. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
81. A great raja.
82. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
3. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
4. Being one more than one hundred.
5. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
6. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
7. Of a pale purple color.
8. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
9. A solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth.
10. Beside one another in a row or rank.
11. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
12. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
13. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
14. An informal term for a father.
19. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
21. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
25. A Hindu theistic philosophy.
28. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
33. Fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses.
34. Traveling on horseback.
37. A period of 10 years.
38. Away from the mouth or oral region.
41. (poetic) Tranquil silence.
42. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
43. Bringing death.
45. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
47. Indras's thunderbolt.
48. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
50. Out of bed.
51. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
58. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
60. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
62. Big-eyed scad.
64. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
65. Willing to face danger.
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
68. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
69. Made from or covered with gold.
70. A town in north central Oklahoma.
73. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
74. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
78. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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