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1. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
5. Remove body hair.
12. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
15. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
16. Having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance.
17. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
18. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
19. The sound of growling (as made by animals).
20. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
22. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
24. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
25. Perfume esp. with a censer.
26. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
27. 1/10 gram.
28. Large Indian antelope.
31. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
32. United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981).
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
41. Type genus of the family Pholadidae.
42. Goddess of fate.
44. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
47. The last (12th) month of the year.
48. Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.
51. Anticonvulsant (trade name Depokene) used to prevent some kinds of seizures.
54. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
56. Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed.
57. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
58. With rapid movements.
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
62. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
63. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
66. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
71. The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
74. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
77. Make amends for.
78. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
81. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
82. (used informally) Very small.
83. A derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians).
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
2. Administer an oil or ointment to.
3. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
4. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
5. At or constituting a border or edge.
6. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
7. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
8. United States poet (1917-1977).
9. Report or maintain.
10. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
11. Any plant of the genus Erica.
12. Lacking excess flesh.
13. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
14. A slender double-reed instrument.
21. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
30. Slow or shallow breathing.
34. Wood of any of various alder trees.
35. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
36. Travel up, "We ascended the mountain".
38. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
40. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
43. A visual presentation showing how something works.
45. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
46. (of a shore or shoreline) Having an extensive gently sloping area covered with sand or gravel or shingle down to the water line.
49. (Norse mythology) The Norse dragon that guarded a treasure and was slain by Sigurd.
50. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
52. A doctor's degree in optometry.
53. Important for human and animal food.
55. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
59. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
64. An iconic mental representation.
65. Squash bugs.
67. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
68. Make amends for.
69. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
70. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. God of love and erotic desire.
75. Of southern Europe.
76. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
79. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
80. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
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