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1. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
5. Small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark.
12. Of southern Europe.
15. An aromatic balsam.
16. Not upright in position or posture.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
20. Uneasiness about the fitness of an action.
22. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
23. Cause annoyance in.
24. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
27. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
28. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
37. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
39. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
42. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
51. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
52. Having a margin with rounded scallops.
55. (of farmland) Capable of being farmed productively.
57. Correction by erasing.
58. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
60. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
61. A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
65. A South African plant of the genus Othonna having smooth often fleshy leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. A fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
74. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
75. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
76. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
77. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
78. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
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1. The event of something ending.
2. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
3. Very attentive or observant.
4. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
5. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
6. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
7. Of or relating to the nervous system.
8. A distinguishing feature of one's personal nature.
9. A loose cloak with a hood.
10. The highest level or degree attainable.
11. A New England state.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
19. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
21. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
29. A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.
33. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. A person who participates in a meeting.
36. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
38. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
40. Lower in esteem.
41. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
44. A disorderly crowd of people.
46. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
48. Being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium.
49. The stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle.
50. An adult male singer with the lowest voice.
53. Cast again.
54. A country north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
56. A South American river.
59. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
62. In bed.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
67. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
68. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
71. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
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