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1. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
4. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.
11. A Loloish language.
15. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
16. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
17. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
20. (Greek mythology) The husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
23. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
30. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
32. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
34. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
35. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
38. Being four more than seventy.
40. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
42. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
44. A quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
46. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
47. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
48. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
52. An act punishable by law.
55. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
56. On or toward the lee.
57. Of or belonging to an aecium.
59. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
61. The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
63. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
65. Presence of excess lipids in the blood.
68. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
76. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
77. Flowing in drops.
79. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
81. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
82. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
83. Exultantly proud and joyful.
84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. At a previous time.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A genus of Platalea.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. Any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds.
6. (Irish) The sea personified.
7. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
8. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
9. A state in midwestern United States.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. Jordan's port.
12. 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.
13. A loud raucous cry as of an awl.
14. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
22. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
24. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
25. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
28. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
29. English monk and scholar (672-735).
31. Fallow deer.
33. Lose validity.
36. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
37. An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal).
39. Being deficient in moisture.
41. A Muslim council of state.
43. (biology) Rough to the touch.
45. Either extremity of something that has length.
49. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
50. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
51. A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
53. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
54. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
58. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
60. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
62. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
64. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
66. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
67. Marked by the reception of pay.
69. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. A quantity of no importance.
74. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
75. Used of a single unit or thing.
78. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
80. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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