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1. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. (of persons) Seized and detained unlawfully, often for ransom.
12. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
15. Being one more than two.
16. A substance derived from amygdalin.
17. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
18. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. Type genus of the Amiidae.
23. The residue that remains when something is burned.
25. Held in check with difficulty.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
39. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
43. Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
44. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
45. A soft silvery metallic element.
46. Cause to combine with iodine.
47. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
49. State in northeastern India.
51. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
52. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
54. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
56. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
57. A projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water.
60. Found pleasant or attractive.
62. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
64. Very small northern fish.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
75. Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward.
76. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
79. Of or being the lowest female voice.
80. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
81. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
82. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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1. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
2. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
3. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. A Mid-Atlantic state.
7. A state in the western United States.
8. A byproduct of inflammation.
9. Slang for `drunk'.
10. Exultantly proud and joyful.
11. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. Not at all or in no way.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. The act of scanning.
26. A colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon.
28. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
31. A small contrasting part of something.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. Type genus of the Apidae.
36. A small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear.
37. Everything you own.
38. Someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall.
40. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
41. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
42. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence.
48. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
50. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
53. The overhead upper surface of a room.
55. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
58. (Norse mythology) An enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin.
59. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
61. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
63. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
67. Take by theft.
68. A small island.
69. (prefix) Outside or outer.
70. A worthless lazy fellow.
73. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
78. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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