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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. A television broadcast.
12. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Any of various showy orchids of the genus Sobralia having leafy stems and bright-colored solitary or racemose flowers similar to those of genus Cattleya.
17. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
18. A popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula.
20. State in northeastern India.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
24. (trademark) An antacid.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. A fraudulent business scheme.
30. Your general store of remembered information.
31. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
34. A member of the British order of honor.
38. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
40. Type genus of the Ranidae.
41. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
43. The sound made by a gentle blow.
44. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
46. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
48. Having no fixed course.
52. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
53. With much noise or loud and unpleasant sound.
54. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
56. Range of what one can know or understand.
57. Being nine more than ninety.
58. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard).
61. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
64. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
67. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
74. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
77. An informal term for a father.
78. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
79. Matter that remains after something has been removed.
80. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
81. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
82. A festival featuring African-American culture.
83. Fallow deer.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. By bad luck.
3. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
4. A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake).
5. The longest division of geological time.
6. 16 ounces.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
9. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
10. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
11. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
12. A domain in which something is dominant.
13. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
14. The second largest city in Tunisia.
19. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
23. A federally chartered savings bank.
25. King of the Huns.
28. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
29. United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905- ).
32. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
33. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
35. Tag the base runner to get him out.
36. A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement.
37. A person who seeks the advice of a lawyer.
39. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
42. A Nilotic language.
45. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
47. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
50. A metallic tapping sound.
51. Common Indian weaverbird.
55. Morning glory.
59. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances).
60. Softened by the addition of cushions or padding.
62. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
63. Having two feet.
66. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
68. United States actor (born in Ireland).
69. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
70. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
71. Offering fun and gaiety.
72. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
73. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
75. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
76. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
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