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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894).
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
16. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
17. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
18. Lacking motor coordination.
20. Intelligence derived from non-communications electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources).
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
22. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
23. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
25. Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle.
28. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
29. A fraudulent business scheme.
31. A small portable timepiece.
34. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
38. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
40. Made of earth (or baked clay).
41. 36th President of the United States.
43. Toward the mouth or oral region.
45. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
46. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
48. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
51. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
52. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
54. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
56. An associate degree in nursing.
57. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
58. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
61. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
64. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
66. King of the Huns.
69. Continuing forever or indefinitely.
73. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
77. A procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis.
79. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
80. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
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1. The second largest city in Tunisia.
2. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
3. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. A conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
6. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
7. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
8. Of superior grade.
9. Armor plate that protects the chest.
10. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
11. Type genus of the Sittidae.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
24. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
26. Related on the mother's side.
27. A jar for holding jellies or preserves.
30. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
35. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
36. Rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes.
37. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
42. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. Remove the clip from.
49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
59. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
60. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
62. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
63. Russian country house.
65. Squash bugs.
67. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
68. An inhabitant of Lappland.
70. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
71. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
72. A quantity that is added.
74. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
78. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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