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1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
4. Old-fashioned and out of date.
12. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
15. A solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner.
16. Deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers.
17. A resource.
18. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
20. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
29. A son who has the same first name as his father.
31. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
32. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
36. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium.
44. Being one more than fifty.
45. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
52. Aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America.
54. Lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces.
55. (prefix) Within.
56. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
58. Butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsley.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
64. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
66. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
69. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
72. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
74. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
75. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
76. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward.
78. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
79. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
80. Armor plate that protects the foot.
81. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
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1. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
2. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
3. A Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania.
4. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located.
5. Considerate and solicitous care.
6. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
7. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
8. A conversation between two persons.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
12. A special way of doing something.
13. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
14. A European river.
19. An indication of approved or superior status.
21. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
23. Any of various units of capacity.
24. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. Hold on to.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. French novelist.
35. The state of existing and being localized in space.
37. Cause to lose courage.
38. A small but appreciable amount.
39. Tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit.
42. Not enough.
43. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
47. Having no fever.
48. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
49. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
50. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
51. Pour water on.
53. The Teutonic god of thunder.
57. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
60. Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed.
62. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
63. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
65. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
67. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
68. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
70. An associate degree in applied science.
71. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
73. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
77. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
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