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1. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. A horizontal bar that goes across something.
12. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
15. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
16. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. Do something to an excessive degree.
20. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
22. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
24. A thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric.
26. Offering little or no hope.
29. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
31. A long narrow natural elevation or striation.
34. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
37. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
38. An associate degree in nursing.
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
43. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
45. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
51. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
56. That is to say.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. Of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible.
61. The state capital of Alaska.
63. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
64. A French abbot.
67. Toward the mouth or oral region.
68. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
72. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
75. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
76. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
79. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
80. A doctor's degree in education.
81. A long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass.
82. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
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1. Sour or bitter in taste.
2. Lap at the front of a coat.
3. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
4. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.
5. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
6. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
7. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
8. An honorary degree in science.
9. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. Having the rafters especially having them visible.
12. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
13. At a previous time.
14. A recognizable kind.
21. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
23. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. A narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa.
33. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. Person who does no work.
41. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
42. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
46. Spider monkeys.
47. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
49. The act of burying again.
52. An Asian river between China and Russia.
53. In bed.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. An African river.
58. Chief of the Vanir.
60. A designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated.
62. Verbal abuse.
65. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
66. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
69. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
70. Type genus of the Amiidae.
71. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
73. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
74. The month following January and preceding March.
77. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
78. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
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