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1. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. The middle portion of the brain.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
17. Characteristic of a mob.
18. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
20. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
21. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
23. An elaborate song for solo voice.
26. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
27. A receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes.
29. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
34. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta.
36. Of or relating to or involving an area.
40. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
50. Small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal.
54. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
56. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
57. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
63. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
65. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
67. A person who puts finishing edges on a garment.
69. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
73. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
76. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. A strong emotion.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
83. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
84. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
85. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
4. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
5. Being nine more than ninety.
6. Bar temporarily.
7. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
8. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
9. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
10. Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon.
11. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
12. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
13. Italian film actress (born in 1934).
14. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
19. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
22. Cause to lose courage.
24. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
25. A songbook containing a collection of hymns.
28. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
30. A state of southwestern India.
32. A large fleet.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms.
42. A particular environment or walk of life.
43. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
45. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
46. Half the width of an em.
49. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
53. Suggestive of the supernatural.
55. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
59. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
60. A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality.
61. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
62. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
64. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
66. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
68. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
70. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
71. An informal term for a father.
72. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
74. The residue that remains when something is burned.
75. An accountant certified by the state.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
81. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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