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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Renounce a legal claim or title to.
12. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Genus of perennial rhizomatous herb of southern and southeastern United States.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. A town in central Kansas.
20. The fur of a rabbit.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
28. Perennial plants resembling yucca.
29. Genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan.
32. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
33. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
35. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
39. (Welsh) Underworld god.
42. Australian wild horse.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
46. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
47. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
49. God of war.
52. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
54. A quantity of no importance.
56. Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
57. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
59. Slanderous defamation.
62. The smallest of the four main islands of Japan.
66. Lend dignity or honor to.
70. A boy or man.
71. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
74. Austrian writer (1881-1942).
75. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
76. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
78. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
79. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
80. A great raja.
81. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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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. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
5. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
6. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
7. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
8. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
9. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
10. Being one more than one.
11. A battle in which the Danes defeated the East Saxons in 991.
12. A populous province in northeastern China.
13. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
14. Wife of Balder.
21. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
23. Flesh of a castrated male chicken.
25. Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity).
26. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
27. A bachelor's degree in science.
30. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
36. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
37. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
38. Offering little or no hope.
40. A city of central China.
41. God of death.
45. A doctor's degree in education.
48. Related to or located at the back.
50. A festival featuring African-American culture.
51. A mark to indicate a direction or relation.
53. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
55. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
58. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
60. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
61. Half the width of an em.
63. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
64. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
65. A state in the western United States.
67. English monk and scholar (672-735).
68. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
69. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
72. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
73. The month following March and preceding May.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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