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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
11. Very dark black.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying).
17. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
18. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
19. In part.
20. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A deep bow.
25. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
27. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
28. A European river.
30. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
32. Little known Kamarupan languages.
36. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
39. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
40. An involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear).
41. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
43. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. The act of scanning.
53. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
56. A person who lacks good judgment.
59. Go on board.
60. (New Testament) One of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus.
63. The basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia.
64. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
66. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
70. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
74. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
79. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
80. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
81. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
5. Squash bugs.
6. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
7. Having antlers.
8. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
11. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
14. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
22. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
24. A master's degree in fine arts.
26. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
29. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
31. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
33. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
34. The first event in a series.
35. use again in altered form.
37. A unit of pain intensity.
38. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. How long something has existed.
48. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
49. 1 species.
51. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
52. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
54. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.
55. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
57. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
58. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
61. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
62. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
65. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
67. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
68. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
69. English monk and scholar (672-735).
71. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
72. A human limb.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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