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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. An antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches.
12. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
15. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
16. Markedly different from an accepted norm.
17. The habitation of wild animals.
18. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
19. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
20. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
21. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
23. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
25. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
27. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
31. Coming into view.
35. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
38. Malicious burning to destroy property.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
43. On or toward the lee.
44. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. The north central region of the United States.
50. Any fern of the genus Davallia.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. God of war and sky.
54. Squash bugs.
55. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
57. The quantity that can be held in a mug.
59. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. Capable of having having clear evidence of eliminated without trace.
63. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
67. A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment).
68. Beside one another in a row or rank.
71. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
72. German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969).
74. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
75. A city in the European part of Russia.
76. The membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound.
78. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
79. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
80. Under the influence of a sedative drug.
81. A small wooded hollow.
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1. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
2. Disposed of as useless.
3. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
4. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer.
7. An elaborate song for solo voice.
8. A proud stiff pompous gait.
9. Money demanded for the return of a captured person.
10. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
11. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
12. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
13. Not only so, but.
14. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
22. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
24. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
26. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
28. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
30. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
32. A small island.
33. The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.
34. Small tropical tree with tiered branches and divaricate branchlets having broad glossy dark green leaves.
36. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
37. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
41. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
42. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. Migratory American songbird.
47. 1 species.
49. Material used to daub walls.
51. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
56. Natural qualities or talents.
58. Used of eyes lacking liveliness.
61. A twilled woolen fabric.
62. Remove from memory or existence.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
66. Weapons considered collectively.
69. Using speech rather than writing.
70. Make high-pitched, whiney noises.
73. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
77. A public promotion of some product or service.
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