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1. An aggressive and violent young criminal.
5. Slender and graceful.
12. An erratic deflection from an intended course.
15. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
16. Any of the chemical elements fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. A male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign).
19. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
20. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
21. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
22. A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building.
23. A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.
25. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
27. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
29. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
32. An ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in.
35. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
38. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
40. Of or relating to Chios.
45. A New England state.
46. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
50. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
51. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. A divine manifestation.
69. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
74. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
75. German white wine from the Moselle valley or a similar wine made elsewhere.
77. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
78. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
79. Greater in size or importance or degree.
80. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
2. A violent throw.
3. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
4. An Asian river.
5. Any of various small cucumbers pickled whole.
6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
7. In addition.
8. An informal conversation.
9. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
10. Advancing as if in the game of leapfrog.
11. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
12. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
13. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
14. A city in east central Texas.
24. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
26. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
28. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material.
30. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
33. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
34. A blind god.
37. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
41. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
42. A large fleet.
43. An informal term for a father.
44. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
47. A man who has never been married.
48. Informal terms for urination.
49. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. The cry made by sheep.
56. United States space station.
58. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
60. A very large person.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
64. Flat and uninspiring.
66. Affected manners intended to impress others.
67. The content of cognition.
68. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal.
71. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
73. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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