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1. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
4. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
12. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
17. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
18. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. A soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat.
20. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
21. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
23. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
24. Asian rat snakes.
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. Make or cause to be or to become.
30. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
33. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
38. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
40. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
42. Not in action or at work.
43. Garlic mayonnaise.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
48. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
53. A resource.
54. A state in midwestern United States.
56. A government order imposing a trade barrier.
58. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
60. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
63. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
64. Before noon.
65. Informal terms for a mother.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. A fabric made by knitting.
72. 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.
75. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
79. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
80. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
82. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
83. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
84. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
4. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
7. Of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics.
8. Proboscis worms.
9. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
10. (Irish) The sea personified.
11. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
12. In an idle manner.
13. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
14. By bad luck.
22. Wild and menacing.
25. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. Large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia.
32. Little known Kamarupan languages.
35. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
36. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
37. Not often.
39. Being three more than fifty.
41. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
44. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
46. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
49. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
50. A curved oriental saber.
52. The square of a body of any size of type.
55. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
57. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
59. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
61. Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles.
66. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
67. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
69. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
71. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
76. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
77. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
78. The bill in a restaurant.
81. A state in New England.
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