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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
5. French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687).
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
16. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. Of or relating to the spleen.
20. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
22. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
24. Minor or subordinate.
26. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
28. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
30. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
32. Not clearly understood or expressed.
35. Shod or cased with iron.
39. Being connected or associated.
41. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
45. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
46. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
48. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
49. A formation of people or things one beside another.
50. Having removed clothing.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. Wood duck and mandarin duck.
55. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. Indigo bush.
62. Fastened with stitches.
64. Being of the age 13 through 19.
66. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
70. Partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow).
71. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
74. Made of or resembling lace.
75. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
76. A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.
78. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
79. A column of light (as from a beacon).
80. Struck with especially the open hand.
81. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
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1. A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment).
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. A unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units.
4. Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods.
5. Of a pale purple color.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. Asiatic perennial tufted herb with grasslike evergreen foliage and clusters of dark mauve grapelike flowers.
10. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
11. Half the width of an em.
12. Lower in esteem.
13. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
14. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
19. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
21. An overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship.
23. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
25. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
27. A genus of Ploceidae.
29. Be noisy with activity.
31. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
33. A person of mean disposition.
34. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
37. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
38. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
40. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
44. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
47. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
51. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
53. Chief port of Yemen.
57. Inability to perceive written words.
58. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
60. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
61. Tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song.
63. Treated with wax.
65. English essayist (1775-1834).
67. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
68. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
69. More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first.
72. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
73. A small drink of liquor.
77. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
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