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1. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
4. Falling out of hair.
12. An enclosed space.
15. A person active in party politics.
16. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. An introductory textbook.
20. Someone who eats no animal products at all.
21. A human limb.
22. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
23. Fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers.
25. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
26. In bed.
29. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
30. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
32. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
36. Choose and follow.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
43. Capable of wounding.
45. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
46. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
50. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. One thousand grams.
53. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
55. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
57. Of or relating to the uvea of the eye.
60. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
61. Containing or filled with salt.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
68. The act of escaping physically.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
75. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
76. Produced by a manufacturing process.
77. A small pore especially one in the reproductive bodies of certain algae and fungi through which spores pass.
78. Being one more than two.
79. A primeval personification of air and breath.
80. Situated in front of the anus.
81. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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1. (British abbreviation) "he accepted it on appro".
2. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
3. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
4. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
5. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
6. That is to say.
7. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
8. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
9. Used of the language of the deaf.
10. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
11. A fluid product of inflammation.
12. The act of scanning.
13. Affected manners intended to impress others.
14. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
19. Stone crabs.
24. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).
27. (informal) Exceptionally good.
28. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
31. Immature of its kind.
33. The sacred city of Lamaism.
34. A feeling of favorable regard.
35. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. A drama set to music.
39. A metallic tapping sound.
44. Wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg.
47. Arranged like rays or radii.
48. Presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
54. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
56. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
58. A state in the eastern United States.
59. A United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches.
62. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
63. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
65. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
66. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
69. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
70. Make editorial changes (in a text).
72. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
73. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
74. An electrically charged particle.
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