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1. The sound made by a gentle blow.
4. Walk about.
12. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
15. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. Occurring or existing before birth.
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
18. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
19. A smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure.
20. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
21. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
24. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
27. Expected hopefully.
29. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
31. A quantity of no importance.
32. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
35. Top part of an apron.
37. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
41. Colloquial British abbreviation.
43. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods.
53. The basic unit of money in Romania.
54. A desert in southern Israel.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
58. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
59. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
61. (combining form) Former.
62. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
64. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
71. Of or relating to or involving an area.
72. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
75. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
79. Range of what one can know or understand.
80. Extreme mental retardation.
81. By bad luck.
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1. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
2. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
3. North Atlantic sea poacher.
4. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
5. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
6. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
7. (used of certain religious orders) Barefoot or wearing only sandals.
8. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
9. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
10. National capital of Kiribati.
11. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
12. The capital of Morocco.
13. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
14. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
22. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
23. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
25. A radioactive transuranic element.
26. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
28. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
34. An island in the Mediterranean.
36. An athlete who plays basketball.
38. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
39. A person who makes things.
40. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
42. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
44. A large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
50. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
51. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
56. A period of 10 years.
57. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
60. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
63. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
65. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
66. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
67. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
68. The food served and eaten at one time.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
73. A loud harsh or strident noise.
74. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
77. The square of a body of any size of type.
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