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1. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
5. A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle.
11. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
15. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
16. An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.
17. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
18. A sudden and decisive increase.
19. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
20. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
21. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
23. Of or relating to or causing constriction of the pupil of the eye.
25. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
26. A member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho.
28. Squash bugs.
30. Used of a single unit or thing.
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. The visual percept of a region.
41. A primeval personification of air and breath.
43. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
45. Strike with a flat object.
47. A room where books are kept.
50. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
51. Any of various small lories.
53. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
54. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
55. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
56. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
59. United States playwright (born in 1947).
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
65. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
69. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
73. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
76. A small cake leavened with yeast.
77. Having only superficial plausibility.
81. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
82. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
83. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
84. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
3. Genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size.
4. Main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem.
5. The 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
6. 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.
7. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
8. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
9. A mountain range in northern Kashmir.
10. At full speed.
11. A periodic paperback publication.
12. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
13. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
22. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
29. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
31. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
33. Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.
34. Invade in great numbers, as of pests.
36. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
37. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
38. The British system of withholding tax.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
42. A woman of refinement.
44. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
46. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
48. A ribbon used as a decoration.
49. Jordan's port.
52. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. A bachelor's degree in science.
58. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
60. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
64. Of or relating to or containing barium.
66. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
67. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
68. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
70. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
71. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
72. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
74. The sixth day of the week.
75. The fatty flesh of eel.
78. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
79. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
80. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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