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1. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
4. A sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract).
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
15. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
16. A native or inhabitant of Vietnam.
17. A decree that prohibits something.
18. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.
20. A Russian river.
21. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
23. North American bluebirds.
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
27. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
28. A pauper who lives by begging.
30. A region of North Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar.
32. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
35. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
36. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
38. A large and densely populated urban area.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. An awkward stupid person.
48. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
50. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
53. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
55. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
56. Make less active or intense.
57. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
58. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
60. (British slang) An absolute certainty.
62. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
63. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
64. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries.
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
69. A tetravalent nonmetallic element.
73. The environmental condition.
75. Showing signs of wear and tear.
77. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
78. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
80. A master's degree in business.
81. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
82. The event of being born.
83. A light touch or stroke.
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1. A persistently annoying person.
2. The basic unit of money in Peru.
3. Short and fat.
4. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
5. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
6. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
7. Of or relating to Tantrism.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
10. Someone who guards the entrance to a building.
11. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
12. A port city in southwestern Iran.
13. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
14. Of or belonging to an enemy.
19. Lose blood from one's body.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. An Eskimo hut.
26. Lie adjacent to another.
29. Before noon.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
33. A short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms.
37. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
39. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
40. Wood of a sumac.
41. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
44. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
45. Extremely pleasing.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
49. A town in north central Oklahoma.
51. Of or relating to or resulting from rickets.
52. A protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen.
54. Filled with a great quantity.
59. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
61. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
65. A battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690.
67. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
70. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
71. A small cake leavened with yeast.
72. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
74. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
76. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
79. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
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