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1. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
4. A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens.
12. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
15. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
16. Having a strong distinctive fragrance.
17. A pass between mountain peaks.
18. Subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent.
20. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
22. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
25. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
28. Chief port of Yemen.
30. An island republic on the island of Iceland.
32. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
40. The eleventh month of the civil year.
41. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
44. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
46. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
48. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
49. A city in northwestern Syria.
50. Step on it.
52. Fallow deer.
54. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
55. Suitable for use as food.
58. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
60. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
66. Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955.
71. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
72. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
75. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
76. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
77. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
78. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
79. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
80. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. (of glass or quartzite) Marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material.
4. Bringing death.
5. A particular environment or walk of life.
6. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
9. Make an etching of.
10. Term of address for a man.
11. A white trivalent metallic element.
12. A certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee.
13. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
14. Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness.
19. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
21. Any of the enzymes that catalyze biological oxidation.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. A local computer network for communication between computers.
26. United States chemist (1839-1903).
27. A deep bow.
29. Completely lacking.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
34. Affect with wonder.
37. An inhabitant of Lappland.
38. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
39. A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
45. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles.
47. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
51. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. Rub elbows with.
61. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
62. An extreme state of adversity.
63. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
67. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
68. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
69. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
70. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
73. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
74. A light touch or stroke.
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