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1. An operating system that is on a disk.
4. Type genus of the Monodontidae.
11. A Loloish language.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Correction by erasing.
17. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
18. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
19. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
20. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
21. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
23. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
25. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
27. Half the width of an em.
28. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
30. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
32. A quantity of no importance.
34. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
37. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.
43. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
44. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
45. A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars).
46. A port in southwestern Scotland.
47. Advanced in years.
48. (Akkadian) God ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead.
49. Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task.
52. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance.
54. A city in northern India.
55. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
58. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
60. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
61. (used of boats) Inclined to heel over easily under sail.
63. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
65. A genus of Apodidae.
68. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
76. Lower in esteem.
77. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
78. English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979).
80. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
81. God of the earth.
82. A great raja.
83. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
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1. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. Health care for the aged.
5. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
6. The state that precedes vomiting.
7. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
8. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
9. A person being ordained.
10. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
11. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
12. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
13. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
14. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people.
24. Enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance.
29. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
31. Small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates.
33. An informal term for a father.
35. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964).
36. (India) Usually in combination.
38. Small goat antelope with small conical horns.
39. In bed.
40. Type genus of the Gadidae.
41. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
42. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
50. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
51. A portable gun.
53. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
56. True lizards.
57. Make richer.
59. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
62. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
64. A light touch or stroke.
66. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
70. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
71. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
74. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
75. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
79. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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