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1. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
4. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
11. A member of a Finnish people of Russia.
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. In ceremonial attire and paraphernalia.
17. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
18. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
19. An informal conversation.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. Informal terms for a mother.
24. Small East Indian shrubby mint.
26. 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.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
31. Greek mythology.
35. Any high mountain.
38. A long-playing phonograph record.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
43. A city of central China.
44. The dispersion of the Jews from Palestine after the Babylonian exile (358 BC).
46. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
48. A proportion multiplied by 100.
49. Occurring or payable every year.
50. A restaurant where food is cooked on a grill.
52. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
53. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction.
55. Type genus of the Anatidae.
57. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
58. The female or generative principle.
61. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
64. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
70. The cry made by sheep.
71. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
75. A container.
76. A firm rebuke.
78. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
79. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
80. The income arising from land or other property.
81. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
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1. A woman of refinement.
2. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
3. Big-eyed scad.
4. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
5. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
6. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
7. An awkward stupid person.
8. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. A virility drug (trade name Vasomax) to treat erectile dysfunction in men.
12. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
13. Something that resembles a pill in shape or size.
14. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
20. A unit of subjective loudness.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
28. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
32. Genus of large crested guans (the piping guans).
33. Imperial moths.
34. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela.
36. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.
37. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
39. A person of Polish descent.
41. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A landlocked federal republic in central Europe.
47. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
51. Read anew.
54. Of or relating to near the ear.
56. Of or relating to bionics.
59. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
60. Be in contradiction with.
62. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
63. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
65. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
67. Framework for holding objects.
68. Again but in a new or different way.
69. God of death.
72. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
73. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
74. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
77. A doctor's degree in optometry.
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