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1. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
4. Correction by erasing.
11. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. The owner of contiguous property.
17. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
18. The state of being free from danger or injury.
20. Located below or beneath something else.
21. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
22. Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel.
24. Fallow deer.
25. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
26. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
28. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Alkeran) used to treat multiple myeloma and some other malignancies.
31. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
35. A populous province in northeastern China.
36. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
40. Sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching).
42. A port city in southwestern Iran.
44. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
45. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
46. Unable to relax or be still.
49. Used in combination to denote the middle.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. A sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes.
54. Squash bugs.
56. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
58. Type genus of the Anatidae.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Intelligence derived from non-communications electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources).
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. Any high mountain.
66. The period between successive new moons (29.531 days).
70. Of people.
73. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
74. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
75. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
77. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
79. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
80. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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1. Any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules.
2. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
3. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
4. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
5. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
6. An expressway in a German-speaking country.
7. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls.
8. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
9. Someone who has retired from active working.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
14. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
19. Relating to or written in majuscule letters (which resemble modern capitals).
23. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
27. Informal terms for a mother.
29. Archaic terms for army.
30. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
32. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
33. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
34. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
37. Someone whose business is advertising.
38. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
39. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Minor or subordinate.
47. Resembling a tree in form and branching structure.
48. Situated between the earth and the moon.
51. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
53. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
55. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
57. The Indic language of the Sindhi people.
60. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
62. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
64. The face of a timepiece.
67. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
68. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
69. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
71. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
72. Made warm or hot.
76. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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