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1. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
4. Guaranteed to bring a profit.
12. The month following September and preceding November.
15. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
16. The condition of having no arms.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
18. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
19. United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942).
21. Leather covering the toe of a boot or shoe and reinforcing or decorating it.
24. A connecting point at which several lines come together.
25. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
26. A desert in southern Israel.
28. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. Strip something of drapery.
33. Adorned by inlays.
35. Being three more than fifty.
36. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
38. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
41. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
42. Censure severely or angrily.
44. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
45. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
53. Remove from memory or existence.
54. A group of southern Bantu languages.
56. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
58. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
60. An intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls.
64. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
67. American dramatist (1928- ).
70. A three-tone Chadic language.
71. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
73. (trademark) A thin polyester film.
74. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
77. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
78. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
79. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
80. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
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1. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
2. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
3. A former Turkish term of respect.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
7. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
8. A condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed.
9. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
10. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
11. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
12. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
13. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
14. The thick short innermost digit of the forelimb.
20. A long chair.
22. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
23. Disperse in a medium into a colloidal state.
27. Included seven times in every 19 years.
29. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
32. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. A Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir.
40. (medicine) Chilly.
43. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
46. French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851).
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
49. Resulting from inflammation.
50. Consumer goods that are not destroyed by use.
52. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
55. In a gay manner.
57. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. The act of mimicking.
62. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
63. (Irish) God of love and beauty.
65. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
66. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
68. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
69. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
72. Tag the base runner to get him out.
75. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
76. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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