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1. Adopted in order to deceive.
5. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
16. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
17. A human limb.
18. Of hair color.
20. Below the required standards for a purpose.
21. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
22. Of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era).
23. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
25. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
27. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
29. A bachelor's degree in science.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic.
35. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
38. A son who has the same first name as his father.
39. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. A drama set to music.
42. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
47. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
48. Genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers.
52. Provided with artificial light.
53. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
58. Remove from memory or existence.
61. A telegram sent abroad.
63. Renounce a legal claim or title to.
66. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
70. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
71. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
74. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
75. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
76. A nonflammable liquid (trade name Ethrane) used as an inhalation general anesthetic.
78. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
80. The easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations).
81. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
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1. Free from risk or danger.
2. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
3. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
4. A Mexican (or person of Mexican descent) living in the United States.
5. East Indian annual erect herb.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity.
8. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
9. Showing a natural aptitude for something.
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
11. Remaining after all deductions.
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.
19. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
24. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
26. Abounding with or resembling stars.
28. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
30. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
33. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
34. Of a leaf shape.
36. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
37. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
43. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
45. A dark gray volcanic rock.
49. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
50. Of high moral or intellectual value.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. Make steady.
59. Fried quickly in a little fat.
60. Being one more than seven.
62. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
64. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
65. Being nothing more than specified.
67. Any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers.
68. (Greek mythology) God of love.
69. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
72. A local computer network for communication between computers.
73. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
77. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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