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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
12. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
19. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
20. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
22. Make less active or intense.
24. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
29. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
36. Type genus of the Rubiaceae.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
42. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
48. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967).
52. 1 species.
54. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
57. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
58. A housing for a radar antenna.
62. Of or concerning the face.
63. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
67. Void of thought or knowledge.
70. Part of the province of Newfoundland in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava peninsula in northeastern Canada.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. Island in West Indies.
76. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
77. Being one more than two.
78. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
79. (British) Your grandmother.
80. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
81. A resident of Alabama.
82. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A city in northern India.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
4. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. An oil port in southern Iraq.
7. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
8. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
9. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. Imperial moths.
12. Lean end of the neck.
13. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
14. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
21. Jordan's port.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. French novelist.
37. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
38. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
39. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
50. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
51. Of or relating to a spectrum.
53. A drama set to music.
55. Small Asiatic wild bird.
56. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
59. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
60. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
61. A native of ancient Troy.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
65. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.
66. A particular environment or walk of life.
68. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
69. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
71. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
74. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
75. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
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