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1. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
4. Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918).
11. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
17. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. Reduce to lay status.
20. Being here now.
21. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
23. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
25. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
27. Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.
29. Measure by titration.
33. A mutual promise to marry.
34. A farewell remark.
35. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
37. A state in New England.
41. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
45. 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.
47. A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions.
50. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
51. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
53. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
54. Give over.
56. An informal term for a father.
58. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. Being one more than one.
65. State in northeastern India.
69. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
71. The content of cognition.
73. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
75. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
78. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
79. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
80. A dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten).
82. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
83. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
84. The whitish root of cultivated parsnip.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Cheese containing a blue mold.
2. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Large Indian antelope.
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. Being seven more than fifty.
7. An enclosed space.
8. A faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask.
9. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
10. Danish composer (1865-1931).
11. A plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries.
12. United States playwright (1906-1963).
13. A telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals).
14. A special lineage.
22. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
24. The 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
26. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
28. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
30. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
31. Having or arranged in tiers.
32. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
36. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
38. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
39. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
40. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
42. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
43. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
44. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
46. A radioactive transuranic element.
48. 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).
49. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
52. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
55. Render capable or able for some task.
57. The superior of a group of nuns.
61. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
67. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
68. Informal terms for a mother.
70. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
72. Fallow deer.
74. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
76. Black tropical American cuckoo.
77. The month following August and preceding October.
81. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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