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1. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
4. Any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water.
11. Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart.
17. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
18. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
20. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
21. World's longest river (4187 miles).
22. (prefix) Within.
24. In a mildly insane manner.
26. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. A framework that supports climbing plants.
38. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. In an unnatural eery manner.
43. Fiddler crabs.
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
51. A kind of person.
52. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
53. Of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia n.
57. A deep bow.
62. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
65. Someone who guards prisoners.
67. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
69. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
73. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
77. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
78. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
79. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
81. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
82. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
83. Chief port of Yemen.
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1. Produced by a manufacturing process.
2. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
3. Toward the mouth or oral region.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
7. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
8. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
9. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
10. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
11. A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement.
12. An opening that permits escape or release.
13. Hang loosely or laxly.
14. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
19. The West AFrican language of the Wolof people in Senegal.
23. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
32. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
33. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
34. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
35. The wool of the vicuna.
36. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
37. A small byte.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
48. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
49. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
50. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
58. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
59. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
61. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
63. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
64. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
66. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
68. A quantity of no importance.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
71. A small inlet.
72. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
74. An accountant certified by the state.
75. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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