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1. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. A midwestern state on the Great Plains.
12. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. Denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. Used of a single unit or thing.
19. A white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals.
20. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
21. Suggesting an unhealthy mental state.
23. Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.
25. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
27. A B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract.
28. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
29. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
31. Any of the three Fates or goddesses of destiny.
34. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
36. Make understand.
39. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. (biology) Covered with hairs especially fine soft ones.
43. Influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941).
44. The month following April and preceding June.
46. Not widely known.
49. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
50. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
52. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
54. Covered with paving material.
57. (of fabrics) Having soft nap produced by brushing.
59. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
61. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
63. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
66. Someone who travels by raft.
70. Being one more than one.
71. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
74. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
75. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
79. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
80. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
81. (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.
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1. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
2. Small and light boat.
3. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
4. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
5. Become ground down or deteriorate.
6. Injured by bites or stings.
7. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
8. Type genus of the Annonaceae.
9. The act of packing or storing away.
10. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
13. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
14. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
22. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
24. A servile or fawning dependant.
26. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
30. A harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment.
32. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
33. Necessary for relief or supply.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
40. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
45. Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943).
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
55. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
56. 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.
58. Out of fashion.
60. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
62. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
64. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
65. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
67. Occurring widely (as to many people).
68. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
69. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
72. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
73. Lacking in light.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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