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1. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
5. The sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office.
12. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
15. A three-tone Chadic language.
16. A region of southern Italy (forming the instep of the Italian `boot').
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
18. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
20. Lessen the intensity of.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
27. A state in New England.
28. Before noon.
30. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
32. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
36. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
42. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
43. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
45. A town in central Belgium.
46. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.
48. Relieve from military service.
51. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
53. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
55. Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends.
58. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
60. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
61. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
63. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
68. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
71. A genus of Mustelidae.
72. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
74. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
75. The mother of your father or mother.
76. Get or find back.
78. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
79. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
80. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
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1. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.
2. A Russian river.
3. Any plant of the genus Erica.
4. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
5. 3 to 30 kilohertz.
6. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
8. An Anatolian language.
9. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
10. The basic unit of money in Iran.
11. The chance to speak.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
23. Informal terms for clothing.
24. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
29. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
31. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
33. Small area set off by walls for special use.
34. Not tired.
35. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
37. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
38. Not in good physical or mental health.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. (especially of promises or contracts) Not violated or disregarded.
47. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
49. Of or happening at noon.
50. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
54. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
56. Chinese tea leaves that have been semi-fermented before being dried.
57. An analgesic for mild pain.
62. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
64. An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance.
65. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
66. At or constituting a border or edge.
67. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
69. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
70. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
73. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
77. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
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