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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. An organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water.
11. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.
15. Seed of a pea plant.
16. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium.
17. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
20. 16 ounces.
22. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
25. Strip something of drapery.
29. The cry made by sheep.
30. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
33. Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
35. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
39. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
40. A woman gossip.
42. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
43. A local computer network for communication between computers.
46. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
48. Black tropical American cuckoo.
49. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
55. A large fleet.
56. Lacking stylishness or neatness.
58. A bluish shade of green.
59. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
62. A flexible container with a single opening.
63. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
66. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
70. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
73. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
75. A branch of the Tai languages.
76. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
80. A master's degree in business.
81. Used of a single unit or thing.
82. In minute detail.
83. Tag the base runner to get him out.
84. A doctor's degree in education.
85. A person to whom a promise is made.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
2. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
3. An unofficial association of people or groups.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. After noon.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
9. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. Deprive of by deceit.
12. English essayist (1775-1834).
13. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
14. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
19. British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979).
21. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
23. Goddess of love and fecundity.
24. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
26. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
27. Before noon.
28. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
31. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
32. The capital of Bahrain.
34. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
36. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
37. Type genus of the Canidae.
38. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. 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.
47. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
50. Support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete.
52. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
54. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ammine (an inorganic coordination compound of ammonia and a metallic salt).
61. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Columba and Eridanus.
64. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
65. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
67. A genus of Lamnidae.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. Jordan's port.
71. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
72. Advanced in years.
74. The general activity of selling.
77. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
78. Term of address for a man.
79. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
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