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1. Black tropical American cuckoo.
4. Nativeness by virtue or originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place).
12. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
15. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
16. A city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an ancient Inca city.
17. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. The act of burying again.
20. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
23. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
24. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. Foam or froth on the sea.
30. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
31. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
34. An ancient country in central Italy.
36. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
39. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
43. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
45. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
46. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
47. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
51. Make or become free of frost or ice.
53. God of war.
55. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
57. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
58. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
61. A public promotion of some product or service.
62. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
65. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
66. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
68. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. Inability to walk.
77. An expression of greeting.
78. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
79. A column of light (as from a beacon).
80. A public register showing the details of ownership and value of land.
83. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
84. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
85. Presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood.
86. Noisy talk.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. World's longest river (4187 miles).
3. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
4. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
5. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
6. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
7. Provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate.
8. A low continuous indistinct sound.
9. Being one more than two.
10. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
11. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
12. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
13. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
14. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
22. A genus of Ploceidae.
25. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
29. Water soaked soil.
32. Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness.
35. A state in midwestern United States.
37. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
38. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
40. English essayist (1775-1834).
41. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
42. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. Make urban or city-like.
50. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
52. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
54. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. One or some or every or all without specification.
60. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
63. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
64. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
67. Resembling gass.
69. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
70. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
71. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
73. Type genus of the Amiidae.
74. Framework for holding objects.
76. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
81. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
82. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
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