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1. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
4. A photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays).
12. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
17. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
18. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
20. United States writer (born in 1925).
21. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
22. Meat from a calf.
23. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
25. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
27. Graceful and pleasing.
30. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
34. The father of your father or mother.
36. State in northeastern India.
40. Dwell (archaic).
41. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
44. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
45. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
47. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
50. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
53. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
59. Make steady.
60. A port city in southwestern Iran.
63. The cry made by sheep.
65. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
66. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
67. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
72. Work table of a machine tool.
75. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
76. A floor covering.
77. Loggerhead turtles.
79. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
80. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
81. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
82. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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1. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. The 10th and last incarnation of Vishnu.
6. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
7. A heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering.
8. In a gay manner.
9. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito.
12. A French river.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. A small skullcap.
19. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
24. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
26. An honorary arts degree.
28. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
29. A Russian river.
31. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
32. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
33. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
35. A person forced to flee from home or country.
37. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
39. A woman of refinement.
42. Before noon.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. Military supplies.
48. One of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones.
52. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
54. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
55. A person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication.
56. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
57. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
58. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
61. Be in contradiction with.
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
68. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
69. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
73. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
74. Adult female chicken.
78. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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