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1. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. Being ten more than thirty.
12. A poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
15. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
16. Tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States.
17. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
18. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
20. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
21. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
22. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
23. North African gerbils.
26. (Babylonian) The sky god.
27. The capital of Nationalist China.
31. Capital of modern Macedonia.
34. A Hindu prince or king in India.
36. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
37. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
42. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
43. A white trivalent metallic element.
44. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.
46. Complacently or inanely foolish.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. The sound made by a gentle blow.
51. Being nothing more than specified.
52. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
56. State in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.
59. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
60. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
70. A town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines.
73. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
75. A state of northeastern India.
77. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
78. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
79. Provide physical relief, as from pain.
81. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
82. (informal) Exceptionally good.
83. Climbing salamanders.
84. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
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1. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
4. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
5. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
6. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
7. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
8. Of or relating to the heart.
9. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
10. An unforeseen obstacle.
11. The square of a body of any size of type.
12. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
13. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
14. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
19. (Norse mythology) One of a race of giants often in conflict with the Aesir.
24. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
25. A state in midwestern United States.
28. Lower in esteem.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
32. A person who sins (without repenting).
33. Of or concerning Qatar.
35. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
38. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
39. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
40. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
41. Catch sight of.
45. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
47. Young bird not yet fledged.
48. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
53. Flowing in drops.
54. Repeated regularly without thought or originality.
55. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
57. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
58. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
61. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
63. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.
64. Having services engaged for a fee.
65. A cravat with wide square ends.
67. An Asian river between China and Russia.
68. Type genus of the Amiidae.
71. A person who possesses great material wealth.
72. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. Being one more than two.
80. Half the width of an em.
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