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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A character set that includes letters.
12. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. The name that precedes the surname.
17. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. A colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
30. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
32. A pass between mountain peaks.
34. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
38. A port city in northwestern Germany.
41. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
42. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
43. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. Abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway.
47. A monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Marplan) that is used to treat clinical depression.
49. Deliver by singing.
50. Very large white gannet with black wing tips.
52. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
53. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
62. A region of western India north of Bombay (bordering the Arabian Sea) where Gujarati is spoken.
65. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas.
69. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
70. United States baseball player.
73. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
74. A sudden quick movement.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
78. A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen.
79. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
80. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. Located farther aft.
5. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
6. A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge.
7. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
8. Of or at or relating to an anode.
9. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
10. The square of a body of any size of type.
11. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
12. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
14. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
21. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry.
25. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
27. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
28. (ecology) The process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.
31. Of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey).
33. A dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten).
35. Characterized by slanting characters.
36. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
37. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
39. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
40. Fallow deer.
44. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
48. Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing.
58. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
59. The local environment.
60. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
61. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
63. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
64. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
66. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
67. In or of the present month.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
72. A castrated tomcat.
76. Before noon.
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