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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood.
12. British informal term.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. A region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. Disappear gradually.
20. A small piece of cloth.
21. Having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.
28. A French abbot.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Left-hand page.
35. Baby bed with high sides.
38. An inlaid furniture decoration.
39. Genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs.
42. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
44. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
45. A pass between mountain peaks.
48. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
49. Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule.
51. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
58. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
62. Make amends for.
64. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
66. Type genus of the Rhamnaceae.
70. How long something has existed.
71. Of or relating to a caduceus.
74. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
75. Tag the base runner to get him out.
76. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
77. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
78. Used of a single unit or thing.
79. A great raja.
80. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
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1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
3. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
4. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
5. Assault sexually.
6. With rapid movements.
7. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
8. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
9. Makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes.
10. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. A major Mexican port on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Veracruz.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
22. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
24. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.
29. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers.
30. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
33. The fifth month of the civil year.
34. Somewhat elderly.
36. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil.
37. A crime syndicate in the United States.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
43. A master's degree in fine arts.
46. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
47. Woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia.
50. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
52. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
55. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic.
57. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
59. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
60. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
61. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
63. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
65. A fraudulent business scheme.
67. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
68. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
69. A state of agitated irritation.
72. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
73. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
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