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1. A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal).
5. A very wealthy or powerful businessman.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
19. Any monetary aid.
21. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
23. Type genus of the Anatidae.
24. The bill in a restaurant.
25. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
27. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
30. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
34. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
37. (zoology) Having a tail or taillike appendage.
40. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
41. A city in northern India.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
45. A small piece of cloth.
47. Being one more than nine.
48. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
50. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
52. Located on a side.
56. Lowered in value.
60. One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.
63. A Mid-Atlantic state.
64. Not easy.
68. By bad luck.
69. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
72. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
74. A master's degree in education.
77. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
78. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
79. Elder brother of Krishna.
80. A unit of pressure.
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1. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
2. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Freetail bats.
5. A periodic paperback publication.
6. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
7. The father of your father or mother.
8. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
9. An honorary arts degree.
10. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
11. An acronym for Emissions of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources.
12. Having the slant of a bevel.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of romanticism (1866-1925).
28. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
29. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
31. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
32. Ostentatiously lofty in style.
33. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
35. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
36. A small stream.
38. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
39. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
43. A city in southeastern South Korea.
44. A state in the western United States.
46. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
49. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
51. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
53. Of or relating to the wrist.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
58. Type genus of the Vespidae.
59. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
61. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
62. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
67. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
70. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
71. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
76. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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