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1. A French abbot.
5. Informal terms for clothing.
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
16. Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
20. A kind of polyester fabric.
21. Any of several bog orchids of the genus Arethusa having 1 or 2 showy flowers.
23. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
24. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
25. Being three more than fifty.
26. 16 ounces.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
32. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
33. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
35. Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
39. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
41. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
43. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
44. Darkened with overcast.
47. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
49. The sign language used in the United States.
50. The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place.
52. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
54. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
55. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
56. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
58. The third month of the civil year.
61. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
62. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
63. By bad luck.
65. A domain in which something is dominant.
68. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
71. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. Plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy.
78. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
79. A man of great strength or bravery.
81. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
82. Used of a single unit or thing.
83. (of fabrics and paper) Grown dark in color over time.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A city in northern India.
2. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
3. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
4. Related on the mother's side.
5. A Formosan language.
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
8. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
9. A city in northwestern Syria.
10. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
11. United States space station.
12. Food for domestic livestock.
13. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
14. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
19. A dense growth of bushes.
22. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
27. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
34. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
37. Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.
38. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level.
40. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
42. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
45. Belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part.
46. Given or having a specified name.
48. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
51. The head of a state government.
53. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
57. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
59. Clear and bright.
60. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
64. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
66. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. A coil of rope or wool or yarn.
70. Most important element.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
76. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
77. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
80. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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