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1. Slightly wet.
5. The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles or messages) coming and going in a particular locality.
12. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
15. A fit of shivering.
16. Lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. A reserve of money set aside for some purpose.
19. The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway).
20. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
22. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
24. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
25. A government order imposing a trade barrier.
26. A parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
32. Type genus of the Anatidae.
34. A book of the New Testament.
38. Jordan's port.
40. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
42. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
43. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
45. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
47. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
48. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
51. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
53. A state of readiness to respond.
55. City in northeast Pakistan.
56. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
57. (pathology) Tending to become more severe or wider in scope.
60. Marked by correspondence or resemblance.
61. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
65. English writer (1672-1729).
68. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
71. Liveliness of mind or spirit.
73. A boy or man.
74. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
75. The pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal.
77. Black tropical American cuckoo.
78. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
79. Be iridescent.
80. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
6. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
7. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
9. A mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air.
10. Not out.
11. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
12. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. A city in east central Texas.
21. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
30. A constellation in the Milky Way near Cygnus.
31. In captivity.
33. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
35. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
36. Large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout.
37. A share of something.
39. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
44. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
46. Speaking a Slavic language.
49. An implement used to erase something.
50. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
52. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
54. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
58. A small native range horse.
59. Trousers that end at or above the knee.
62. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
66. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
67. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
69. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
70. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
72. An honorary law degree.
76. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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