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1. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
4. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
12. The sign language used in the United States.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Sorrowful through loss or deprivation.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
20. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
23. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
25. A Hindu prince or king in India.
29. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
31. To the degree or extent.
34. Copy that is not the original.
38. As the agent of or on someone's part.
41. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
42. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
43. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
45. (British informal) Not to be deceived or hoodwinked n 1.
46. Two items of the same kind.
48. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. Escape, either physically or mentally.
53. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
54. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
55. The mother of Jesus.
58. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
60. Before noon.
61. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
62. (Irish) Goddess.
64. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
67. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
70. Fallow deer.
73. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
75. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
76. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
79. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
80. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
81. The bodily process of discharging waste matter.
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. Any of various units of capacity.
5. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
7. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
8. A member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California.
9. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
10. A period of 10 years.
11. The capital and largest city of Japan.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. In a foreign country.
24. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
26. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
27. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
30. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
32. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer.
33. A line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute.
35. (in writing) See below.
36. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
37. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
44. United States comedian.
47. A kind of literary or artistic work.
49. A resident of Alabama.
50. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
52. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
65. An informal term for a father.
66. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
69. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
71. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
74. The sound made by a cow or bull.
77. Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.
78. One thousand grams.
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