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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. Mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus.
12. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. Of or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. How long something has existed.
19. An inhaled bronchodilator (trade name Atrovent).
20. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. Of or relating to the gonads.
23. Either extremity of something that has length.
25. Caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted.
27. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
32. An island republic on the island of Iceland.
37. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
38. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
40. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
41. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
43. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
44. Draw in by breathing.
47. Rate of revolution of a motor.
48. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
53. A port city in southwestern Iran.
56. Of hair color.
58. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
61. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
66. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
70. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
74. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
75. A channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river.
77. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
78. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
79. United States poet (1884-1933).
80. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
3. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. Wife of Ramachandra.
6. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
7. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
8. An assembly of witches.
9. Extreme mental retardation.
10. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
11. A proportion multiplied by 100.
12. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
13. Baby bed with high sides.
14. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
22. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
24. 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.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971).
29. Russian country house.
30. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
31. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
33. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
34. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
35. The small projection of a mammary gland.
36. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
39. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
42. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
45. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
46. A radioactive transuranic element.
49. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
50. A tight-fitting garment that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles).
51. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
52. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. An associate degree in nursing.
57. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
60. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
62. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
64. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
65. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
67. A Loloish language.
68. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
69. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
71. The products of human creativity.
72. Compete for something.
73. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
76. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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