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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. The academic world.
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Behavior or language bordering on indelicacy.
17. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
18. The residue that remains when something is burned.
19. A naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary.
20. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
21. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
23. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
25. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
28. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
30. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
34. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
38. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
41. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
43. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
47. The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.
48. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
49. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
50. Containing or filled with salt.
51. Jordan's port.
53. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
54. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. An associate degree in applied science.
64. A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes.
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
73. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
75. The mints.
76. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
77. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
79. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
80. A local computer network for communication between computers.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
5. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
6. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
9. Type and sole genus of the family Menuridae.
10. A compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight.
11. The sign language used in the United States.
12. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
22. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
24. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
29. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
31. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
32. Squash bugs.
33. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
35. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
36. Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions.
39. Person who does no work.
40. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
42. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
46. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. Informal terms for a mother.
58. A city in western Saudi Arabia.
60. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
61. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
65. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
66. A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis.
67. English essayist (1775-1834).
68. A sharply directional antenna.
69. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
70. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
71. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
74. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
78. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
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