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1. A United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services.
4. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
11. A small island.
15. Of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base.
16. A member of the Algonquian people formerly of the Pamlico river valley in North Carolina.
17. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
18. By bad luck.
20. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
21. A sudden quick movement.
22. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
23. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
24. (trademark) Nylon fabric used as a fastening.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. A port city in northwestern Germany.
30. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
33. (South African) A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).
34. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
37. Of or pertaining to Rwanda.
39. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
40. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. (computer science) A rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input.
49. The capital and largest city of Hawaii.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
56. Type genus of the Nepidae.
57. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. A curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle.
61. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
64. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
68. A great sacrifice.
72. Accumulated until needed.
73. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
74. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
77. Jordan's port.
78. Being one more than two.
79. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
81. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
82. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
83. Fix firmly or securely.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Hit hard.
2. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
3. Genus of tropical trees.
4. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
5. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
6. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
7. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
8. The abode of humans in Norse mythology.
9. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
10. Call together.
11. Change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language.
12. Sottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721).
13. Large European dormouse.
14. (prefix) Within.
19. A soiled or discolored appearance.
25. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
27. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
29. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
31. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
32. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
35. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
36. 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.
38. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
43. A powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
44. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
47. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
48. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
50. A doctor's degree in optometry.
51. Goddess of dawn.
52. Take off a hook.
59. Provoke someone to do something through promises or persuasion.
60. Make loose or looser.
62. Cause to be attached.
63. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
65. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
70. A milkshake made with malt powder.
71. A coffin along with its stand.
75. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
76. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
80. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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