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1. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
4. Something of sentimental value.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. The absence of mental stress or anxiety.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. A member of a Hindu people descended from Brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal.
20. Give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role.
21. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
22. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A tapering point.
28. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
32. A radioactive transuranic element.
34. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
35. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
38. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
41. Emptying accomplished by draining.
42. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
46. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
47. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
50. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
51. Term of address for a man.
52. A rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls.
55. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
58. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
59. (informal) Of the highest quality.
61. Being in a tense state.
62. (usually plural) When two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots the result is called `boxcars'.
70. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
71. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
75. A genus of European owls.
76. An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. A natural protective covering of the body.
80. A unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry.
81. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. A bitter quarrel between two parties.
3. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
4. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
5. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
6. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
7. Situated in front of the anus.
8. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
9. Outer membrane covering an axon.
10. A case for containing a set of articles.
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. Type genus of the Ranidae.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
23. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
24. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
27. Tropical Asian starlings.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
31. In an unctuous manner.
33. Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light.
36. Growing in two parts or in pairs.
37. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
39. A kind of literary or artistic work.
43. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
44. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
45. A dark purplish red.
49. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
54. Filled or abounding with fog or mist.
56. A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.
57. One million periods per second.
60. Any plant of the genus Erica.
63. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
64. Being one more than twelve.
65. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
66. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
67. A metal piece (usually a disc) used as money v 1.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. The residue that remains when something is burned.
73. A loud utterance.
74. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
77. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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