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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
5. English theoretical physicist (born in 1942).
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. Type genus of the Amiidae.
16. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
17. A human limb.
18. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
19. Radiating or as if radiating light.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
22. Relating to or containing acetic acid.
26. A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans.
28. Plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative.
31. Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities.
35. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
36. Framework for holding objects.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
40. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful.
45. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
46. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
48. 16 ounces.
49. Make less active or intense.
51. An associate degree in nursing.
52. Speaking a Slavic language.
54. Rounded like an egg.
55. Capital of Armenia.
60. An upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium.
62. Affect with wonder.
64. An enclosed space.
65. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
67. A dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray.
72. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
76. Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment.
78. 36th President of the United States.
79. 10 grams.
80. The range within which a voice can be heard.
81. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
3. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
4. Large mackerel with long pointed snout.
5. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
6. Engaged in as a pastime.
7. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
8. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
9. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
10. A port city in western France on the Loire estuary.
11. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
12. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
13. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
14. A city in northern India.
23. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
24. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
25. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
27. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
29. Characterized by absence of emotional agitation.
30. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
32. The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves.
33. A cloth having a crisscross design.
34. Lacking in physical beauty or proportion.
37. Any small compartment.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
50. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
53. An ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidney and so results in vasodilation.
56. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
57. Leave voluntarily.
58. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
59. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
61. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
63. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
66. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
68. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
69. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
70. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
71. A Hindu prince or king in India.
73. The month following March and preceding May.
77. A form of address for a man.
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