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1. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
4. Smiling with happiness or optimism.
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. An actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl.
17. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
18. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
20. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
21. An argument opposed to a proposal.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison.
28. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
30. An informal term for a father.
32. The event of dying or departure from life.
33. Tag the base runner to get him out.
36. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
38. Of or relating to a canton.
41. Early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States.
45. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
46. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
47. A lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs.
49. An honorary degree in science.
50. A sudden violent spontaneous occurrence of an undesirable condition.
52. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
54. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
55. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
57. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
58. Of or relating to the kidneys.
59. Relating to or near the ulna.
61. Before noon.
63. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
65. 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.
69. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
73. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. A cgs unit of work or energy.
80. Free from liquid or moisture.
81. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
82. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
4. Top part of an apron.
5. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A state in New England.
8. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
9. Wood of a sumac.
10. German hero.
11. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
12. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
13. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
14. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
19. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
23. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
24. British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979).
26. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
27. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
31. Grow by addition, as of capital.
34. Used of certain religious orders who wear shoes.
35. Submerged freshwater perennials.
37. A hairdresser who tints hair.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. (Assyrian) God of fire and light.
42. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
43. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
44. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
48. A weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts).
51. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
53. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
56. An elasticized rope.
60. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
62. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
64. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
66. In bed.
67. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
68. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
70. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
71. The residue that remains when something is burned.
72. An accountant certified by the state.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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