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1. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
4. Genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood.
11. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
15. An accountant certified by the state.
16. A motley assortment of things.
17. A city in northern India.
18. A resource.
19. British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959).
20. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
21. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
23. Advanced in years.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
28. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
30. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
32. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
34. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
38. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
41. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
44. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
45. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
46. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
49. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
50. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. A person forced to flee from home or country.
53. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence.
54. In bed.
58. Half the width of an em.
61. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
65. A flexible container with a single opening.
66. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
68. Thin and fit.
71. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
75. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
77. A small cake leavened with yeast.
79. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
80. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
81. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
84. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
85. A licensed medical practitioner.
86. A great raja.
87. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. A genus of Ploceidae.
4. The ending of a series or sequence.
5. Having a slightly undulating margin.
6. A master's degree in library science.
7. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
8. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
9. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
10. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
11. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. Offering fun and gaiety.
22. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
29. A soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime.
31. A politically organized body of people under a single government.
33. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
35. Used in combination to denote the middle.
36. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
37. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
39. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
40. Type genus of the Hylidae.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
51. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
55. To work at or to absurd length.
56. Dutch postimpressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890).
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. Of or relating to or containing barium.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
67. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
69. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
70. Type genus of the Ranidae.
72. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
73. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
74. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
76. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
78. The cry made by sheep.
82. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
83. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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