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1. Speaking a Slavic language.
5. A small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication.
12. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
15. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
16. A genus of Mysidae.
17. Not in good physical or mental health.
18. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
20. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
21. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
27. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
29. An accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing.
30. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
33. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
37. The act of using.
38. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
40. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
44. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
48. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
49. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
51. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
55. Clean or orderly.
56. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
59. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
61. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
63. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
64. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
68. A region of southern Italy (forming the toe of the Italian `boot').
71. Sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor.
72. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
73. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
78. Be a mystery or bewildering to.
80. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
81. A doctor's degree in education.
82. Winter aconite.
83. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. (trademark) Nylon fabric used as a fastening.
5. An accountant certified by the state.
6. A human limb.
7. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. Guinea fowl.
9. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
13. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
14. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
22. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
26. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
28. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
31. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
32. Do wrongly or improperly.
34. Lower in esteem.
35. Greek mythology.
36. Cause to lose courage.
39. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. Having a common axis.
45. Wood of a pecan tree.
46. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
47. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
50. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
54. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction.
57. Take in, also metaphorically.
58. A supply of food especially for a household.
60. United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935).
62. By chance.
65. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
66. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
67. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
69. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
70. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
74. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
75. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
79. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
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