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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. The lean flesh of a saltwater fish found it warm waters (especially Hawaii).
12. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. Lacking gonads.
17. A doctor's degree in education.
18. Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects.
19. Utter a hoarse sound, like a raven.
20. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
24. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence.
26. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
29. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
31. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
35. A severe or trying experience.
38. Minor or subordinate.
39. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances).
41. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Any external parasitic organism (as fleas).
45. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
46. Any toad of the genus Bufo.
48. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
51. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
54. A derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians).
57. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
58. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
62. (Norse mythology) Trickster.
66. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
70. A substance that can be burned to provide heat or power.
71. German mathematician (1804-1851).
74. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
76. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
77. The academic world.
80. Preserve of crushed fruit.
81. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
82. Skill with numbers and mathematics.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness.
2. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
3. Wood of a sumac.
4. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
8. A city in north central Venezuela.
9. Someone who admires a young woman.
10. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.
11. A kind of person.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
13. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. A yellow quartz.
25. A drama set to music.
28. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
30. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
32. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
33. Small area set off by walls for special use.
34. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
36. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
37. 1 species.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
43. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
47. In operation or operational.
50. A master's degree in fine arts.
52. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
53. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
55. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
56. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
60. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
61. Of or relating to or containing barium.
63. A board with the alphabet on it.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
67. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
68. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
72. A decree that prohibits something.
73. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
75. A negative.
78. Before noon.
79. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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