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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. As if striking with slashing blows.
12. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
15. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
16. Affiliated with one party or faction.
17. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. With unreduced energy.
28. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
29. A city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal.
31. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
34. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
35. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
37. An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.
39. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
42. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
43. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
48. Of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3.
49. A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia halfway between New Guinea and Japan.
51. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
52. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
54. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
55. Look at with amorous intentions.
59. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
61. Go ashore.
64. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
66. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. A colt with undescended testicles.
74. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
75. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
76. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
78. (British) Your grandmother.
79. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
80. A great raja.
81. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border.
5. A blank gap or missing part.
6. The products of human creativity.
7. A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.
8. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
9. (medieval legends) The bride of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. The most inferior point of the mandible in the midline.
12. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
13. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
14. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
21. A conversation between two persons.
23. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
25. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
26. A church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies.
27. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
30. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
32. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
33. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
36. (informal) Of the highest quality.
38. A sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string).
40. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. The first month of the Islamic calendar.
46. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
50. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
53. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
56. Lower in esteem.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
58. Earlier in time.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
62. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
63. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
65. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
67. Located at or near the back of an animal.
68. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
69. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
72. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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