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1. Give a nickname to.
4. A reformed prostitute.
12. Fiddler crabs.
15. The sign language used in the United States.
16. Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear.
17. Tag the base runner to get him out.
18. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
20. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
21. Covered with scabs.
23. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
24. A feeling of self-respect and personal worth.
26. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
27. Type genus of the Upupidae.
30. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
32. The honeycreepers.
35. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
38. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. Lacking excess flesh.
42. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
44. A vigorous blow.
46. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
48. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
49. Capable of being acted.
51. Situated between the earth and the moon.
55. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
56. A blanket-like cloak with a hole in the center for the head.
57. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
58. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
62. An elaborate song for solo voice.
63. United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River.
65. 16 ounces.
66. Cause to repeat a cycle.
69. Music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues.
71. A drama set to music.
73. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
74. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
75. Grant credentials to.
78. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
79. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
80. A decree that prohibits something.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. A person who makes use of a thing.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. A state in New England.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing.
7. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the Empress of India (1804-1881).
8. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
9. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
10. A member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey.
11. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
12. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
13. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
14. Make amends for.
19. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.
22. Sour or bitter in taste.
25. A mountain in south central Alaska.
28. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
29. In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
34. Social status or position conferred by a system based on class.
36. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
37. A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses.
41. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
43. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
45. Either of the club-like rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects.
47. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
50. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
52. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
53. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
54. Take back what one has said.
59. Spiritually reborn or converted.
60. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
61. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
64. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
68. Very dark black.
70. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
72. Seed of a pea plant.
76. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
77. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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