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1. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
4. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
12. Former measure of the US economy.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia.
17. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
18. A river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea.
20. Grayish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck.
22. A province in north-central China.
23. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
24. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
25. Type genus of the Amiidae.
28. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
30. A durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color.
33. Match badly.
38. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
41. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
44. A state in the western United States.
46. A human limb.
47. Put up in a new or different housing.
52. Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose.
53. The pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug).
54. A slight amount or degree of difference.
56. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
57. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
68. Inquire about.
71. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
73. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
74. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
75. (anatomy) Not connected to the sternum or breastbone.
77. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
78. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
79. Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745).
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
4. Make lighter or brighter.
5. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
6. Not in.
7. A state in southeastern United States.
8. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
9. A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs.
10. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
11. 10 grams.
12. Take by theft.
13. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
14. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
19. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
26. That is to say.
27. Forming or set at an angle.
29. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
31. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
32. The back side of the neck.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. Express gratitude or show appreciation to.
36. Tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae.
37. All of the inhabitants of the earth.
42. 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi.
43. Employed in accomplishing something.
45. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
48. An artificial language.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. The line formed by the edge of a garment around the neck.
51. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
55. Large or big relative to something else.
58. A small unit serving as the nucleus of a larger political movement.
59. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
60. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named.
62. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
63. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. A Loloish language.
67. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
72. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
76. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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