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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. Be unsuccessful.
12. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
15. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
16. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
17. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
18. Largest crested screamer.
20. Being one more than fifty.
21. Shaped like a pouch.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
30. A familiar name (often a shortened version of a person's given name).
33. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
35. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
36. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
39. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
43. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
44. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
45. Being one more than seventeen.
47. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
50. A humorous anecdote or remark.
51. Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
53. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
55. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
61. The longest river of Asia.
63. Not regulated or sanctioned by law.
66. A large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout.
70. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
71. A design that consists of recurring shapes or colors.
74. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
75. A kind of person.
76. A city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal.
78. A notable achievement.
79. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
80. Send something via a facsimile machine.
81. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.
2. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Capital of Swaziland.
5. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
6. A deep bow.
7. The third month of the civil year.
8. Before noon.
9. Imprudently incurring risk.
10. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
11. Noisy talk.
12. Any plant of the genus Erica.
13. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
14. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
19. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
29. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
31. An isogram connecting points receiving equal amounts of sunshine.
32. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
34. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
37. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
38. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
40. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
41. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
42. A strong emotion.
46. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
48. Minor or subordinate.
49. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
52. A domain in which something is dominant.
54. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
56. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
57. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
58. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
59. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
60. Show a response or a reaction to something.
62. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
64. Look at with amorous intentions.
65. Lacking companions or companionship.
67. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
68. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
69. A quantity of no importance.
72. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
73. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
77. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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