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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. North American hickory having loose gray shaggy bark and edible nuts.
12. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A region of northern France on the English Channel.
17. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. Inability to urinate.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
32. Conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value.
35. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
39. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
40. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
42. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
43. Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
46. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
48. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
49. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. The act of despoiling a country in warfare.
54. By bad luck.
56. Free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms.
58. A large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling.
61. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
62. Someone whose business is advertising.
63. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
65. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
67. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
69. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
72. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
76. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
79. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. Water frozen in the solid state.
83. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
85. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
86. A doctor's degree in education.
87. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
88. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
6. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
7. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
8. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. A state in New England.
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
14. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
21. English monk and scholar (672-735).
23. Relating to or near the ulna.
25. An ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck.
27. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
28. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. A small island republic on the Tuvalu islands.
34. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
36. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
37. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
38. Of or relating to or characteristic of Korea or its people or language.
41. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
45. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
47. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
50. Shod with sandals.
53. A genus of Ploceidae.
55. Work hastily or carelessly.
57. A stiff straw hat with a flat crown.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
64. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
66. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
68. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
70. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
71. American novelist (1909-1955).
73. Set down according to a plan.
74. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
75. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
77. The residue that remains when something is burned.
78. An accountant certified by the state.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
84. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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