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1. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces.
4. A long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor.
11. A book of the New Testament.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Board a train.
17. A quantity that is added.
18. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
20. A card game for 2 players.
22. Contrary to or forbidden by law.
25. A strong emotion.
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
28. Type genus of the Scombridae.
30. Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning.
34. Full of zest or vigor.
35. Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation.
36. A radioactive transuranic element.
38. A large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling.
42. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
43. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
45. A form of Japanese poetry.
46. The longest division of geological time.
47. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
49. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
50. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
52. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. Uncastrated adult male horse.
59. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
62. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
63. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
64. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
70. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
74. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
77. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
83. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
84. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
85. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
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1. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
4. A great sacrifice.
5. Again but in a new or different way.
6. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
7. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
8. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
9. A state in New England.
10. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
13. The concentration of a solution as determined by titration.
14. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
19. An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.
21. A genus of Hyaenidae.
23. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
24. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
27. Being one more than fifty.
29. Tropical Asian starlings.
31. Urge on or encourage esp. by shouts.
32. Argentinian cariama.
33. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
37. Found on a farm.
39. Make uniform.
40. Jordan's port.
41. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
44. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
48. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
51. Muslim name for God.
53. (Greek mythology) Sea nymph who was a daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
57. Not out.
58. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
60. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
65. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
66. God of death.
68. American novelist (1909-1955).
69. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
71. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
72. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
73. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
75. The residue that remains when something is burned.
76. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
80. An informal term for a father.
81. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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