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1. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
4. Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together.
12. Not reflecting light.
15. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
16. Any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. The bill in a restaurant.
19. Clouding of the natural lens of the eye.
20. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
21. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
23. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
25. Make uniform.
28. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
30. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
32. Any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as.
34. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
38. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
40. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
42. A rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum.
43. A city in northwestern Mexico near the California border.
45. Of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages.
47. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
48. A Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands.
49. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
50. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
52. The habitation of wild animals.
53. The square of a body of any size of type.
56. A town in central Belgium.
59. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
61. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
64. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
68. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
71. Type genus of family Ulmaceae.
72. English essayist (1775-1834).
74. Situated away from an area's coast or border.
76. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
77. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
78. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
79. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
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1. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
2. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
3. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
4. An indication of approved or superior status.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. Negation of a word or group of words.
7. Singing jazz.
8. A member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin.
9. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
10. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
11. Take in solid food.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
22. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Ansaid) that is administered only orally.
24. Music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance.
26. A covered passageway.
27. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
29. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
31. A minor match preceding the main event.
33. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
35. A city in northwestern Spain near the Cantabrian Mountains.
36. The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.
37. Characterized by intense emotion.
39. An opening that permits escape or release.
41. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
44. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
46. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
51. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
54. French novelist.
55. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. 1 species.
58. Unknown god.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
63. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
65. Type genus of the Amiidae.
66. Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush.
67. Employed in accomplishing something.
69. Top part of an apron.
70. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
73. Being one more than one.
75. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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