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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Neuralgia along the sciatic nerve.
12. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A person skilled in large scale financial transactions.
17. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
18. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
20. Using speech rather than writing.
21. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
22. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A wicked or evil person.
26. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
29. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
31. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
33. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
34. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
36. Being nine more than ninety.
37. All the loaves of bread baked at the same time.
41. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
42. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
44. Not often.
45. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
50. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
52. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
55. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
59. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
61. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
63. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
71. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
72. Relating to or existing on or affecting the skin.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
78. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
79. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
80. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
81. An island northwest of Wales.
82. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
4. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
5. A pass between mountain peaks.
6. Not out.
7. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
8. Of or relating to or associated with or resembling a dictatorship.
9. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
10. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
11. An associate degree in nursing.
12. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
13. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
14. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
19. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
23. A variety of leaf bug.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
30. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
38. A city in west central Mexico.
39. A loud resonant repeating noise.
40. Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.
43. 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.
46. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
48. (Greek Mythology) A famous mythical Greek hero.
51. A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake).
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
58. A person forced to flee from home or country.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
62. Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate.
64. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
66. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
68. Set down according to a plan.
69. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
70. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
73. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
74. Two-year-old sheep.
75. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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