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1. (informal) Roused to anger.
4. A professional killer who uses a gun.
11. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services.
15. How long something has existed.
16. A biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts.
17. A set of rules or principles or laws especially written ones.
18. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
20. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
21. The capital of Western Samoa.
22. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).
23. The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down.
25. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
33. Covered with paving material.
39. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
40. The cry made by sheep.
43. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
48. (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis.
49. The general activity of selling.
50. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
51. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
52. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
54. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
62. Perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America.
65. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
67. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
70. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
71. Capital and largest city of Bosnia.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. A master's degree in fine arts.
76. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
77. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
78. A local computer network for communication between computers.
79. Any salt of chloric acid.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
2. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
3. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
4. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
5. In operation or operational.
6. British soldier.
7. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
8. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
11. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
12. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
13. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
14. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
19. A populous province in northeastern China.
24. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
26. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
31. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
32. United States lyricist who collaborated on musicals with Frederick Loewe (1918-1986).
34. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
35. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
38. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
41. A small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo.
42. A severe or trying experience.
44. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
45. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
47. Both sexes are brightly colored.
53. A permanent council of the United Nations.
55. A state in New England.
56. Earlier in time.
59. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
60. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
61. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
66. Slightly open.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
72. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
73. A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production.
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