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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
5. A form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong.
11. A beautiful and graceful girl.
15. The twelfth month of the civil year.
16. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
17. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
18. (Irish) The sea personified.
20. Evergreen tree of Pacific North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries.
22. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
25. Make amends for.
28. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
29. Move out of a curled position.
34. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
36. Be about.
39. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
40. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
41. Music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance.
43. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
44. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
47. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
50. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
53. The food served and eaten at one time.
54. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
57. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
66. A sudden very loud noise.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
73. The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis.
77. An associate degree in applied science.
78. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. City in central Iran.
83. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
2. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
3. A temporary leave of absence from military duty v 1.
4. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
5. God of death.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
8. A state in midwestern United States.
9. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
10. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
11. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. Type genus of the Ranidae.
14. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
19. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
23. Located inward.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Loud confused noise from many sources.
27. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
30. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
31. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
32. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
33. Greek god of light.
35. A connecting point at which several lines come together.
37. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
38. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
42. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. Being one more than one hundred.
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
49. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
51. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
52. An enzyme of pancreatic origin.
55. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
56. An associate degree in nursing.
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
62. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
63. An oil port in southern Iraq.
65. French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became known as the New Look (1905-1957).
67. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
69. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
70. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
71. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
74. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
75. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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