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1. A proportion multiplied by 100.
4. A demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together.
12. An enclosed space.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A radical who advocates the abolition of political or economic or social inequalities.
17. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
18. Of or denoting or relating to the Balkan countries or their inhabitants or the Balkan peninsula or the Balkan Mountains.
20. Indigo bush.
21. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
22. The capital of Turkey.
23. Not out.
24. Become wider.
26. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
29. Sturdy annual of Peru.
32. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
33. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
34. Type genus of the family Ascaridae.
39. The seed of the cereal grass.
40. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. An open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers.
47. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
49. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
51. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
52. A genus of Platalea.
53. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
54. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
56. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
58. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
59. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
64. American novelist (1909-1955).
68. An item of factual information derived from measurement or research.
72. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
74. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
75. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
76. In a churlish manner.
78. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
79. An informal term for a father.
80. A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess).
81. A Loloish language.
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1. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
2. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
3. An exchange of ideas via conversation.
4. A single-reed instrument with a straight tube.
5. German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947).
6. The eleventh month of the civil year.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
9. Not in good physical or mental health.
10. Unnecessary and unwarranted.
11. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
12. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
13. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
14. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
19. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
25. A Russian river.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
30. The eighth month of the civil year.
31. Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae having edible pungent-tasting leaves.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
36. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
37. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
38. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
43. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
46. Suggestive of the supernatural.
48. Small East Indian shrubby mint.
50. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
60. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
61. King of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC).
62. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
63. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
65. Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone.
66. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
67. Baby bed with high sides.
69. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
70. A state in the western United States.
71. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
73. A unit of pressure.
77. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
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