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1. A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic v 1.
5. An amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine.
12. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
15. A Loloish language.
16. Showing sly or knowing malice in a glance.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
20. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
22. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
23. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
25. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
26. Weapons considered collectively.
27. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
33. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
37. Little known Kamarupan languages.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
44. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
45. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
46. Any competition.
48. An honorary degree in science.
49. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
54. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
55. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
56. Remove or make invisible.
57. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
59. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
61. A midwestern state in north central United States.
62. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
63. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
65. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
68. A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law.
73. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
76. Broad-winged soaring hawks.
77. Capital of modern Macedonia.
80. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
81. Belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples n 1.
83. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. Take in solid food.
85. Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units.
86. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
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1. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
2. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
3. Take away the weapons from.
4. An opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors.
5. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
6. Shape anew or differently.
7. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
8. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
9. Prong on a fork or pitchfork.
10. Not out.
11. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
12. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
13. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
14. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
21. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
34. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
35. Leave voluntarily.
36. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
38. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
39. Foul with waste matter.
40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
43. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
52. Fastened with stitches.
53. English essayist (1775-1834).
58. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
60. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the surface of the sun.
64. Any taillike structure.
66. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
67. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
69. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
70. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
71. The goddess of the moon.
72. Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed.
74. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
75. Give over.
78. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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