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1. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
5. Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush.
12. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
15. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
20. A weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts).
22. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
23. Constricted in size.
24. Used of a single unit or thing.
25. Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores.
28. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
30. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
32. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
35. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
39. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
42. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. Old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds.
48. A city in the European part of Russia.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
52. Attain success or reach a goal.
55. Mongolian wild ass.
57. A Russian river.
58. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
59. A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
66. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
70. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
71. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
72. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
74. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
78. A Scottish word.
79. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
80. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
3. Complacently or inanely foolish.
4. Fallow deer.
5. A white trivalent metallic element.
6. A region of southern Italy (forming the toe of the Italian `boot').
7. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
8. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
9. An oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels.
10. A loud harsh or strident noise.
11. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
12. An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes.
13. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
14. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
19. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
21. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
26. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
27. A column of light (as from a beacon).
29. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
31. An awkward stupid person.
33. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
34. Of a pale purple color.
36. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
37. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
38. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
40. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
41. (quantifier used with mass nouns) Great in quantity or degree or extent.
44. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
45. A radioactive transuranic element.
46. Possessing material wealth.
47. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Made or become cool or made cool as specified.
54. The person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment.
56. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
60. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
61. A British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters.
62. An inhabitant of Lappland.
63. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
64. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
65. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
67. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
68. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. Type genus of the Ranidae.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Being nine more than forty.
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