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1. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
4. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
12. Enlarged prostate.
15. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. Act of relinquishing property or authority etc.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
20. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. Fit or ready for use or service.
24. The wood of an African obeche tree.
26. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
27. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
30. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
33. Especially one side of a leaf.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
44. Goddess of fertility.
45. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
47. How long something has existed.
50. Belonging to some prior time.
51. Of or relating to rabbis or their teachings.
53. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
54. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
55. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
58. A quantity that is added.
59. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
60. Attractiveness to the opposite sex.
61. A populous province in northeastern China.
65. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. Common house and field crickets.
74. A three-year law degree.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
78. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
79. City in central Iran.
80. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.
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1. A message that seems to convey no meaning.
2. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
3. Hold back to a later time.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A telegram sent abroad.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
8. Nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg).
9. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
10. A coagulation factor (trade name Hemofil) whose absence is associated with hemophilia A.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
13. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
14. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
19. The capital of Nationalist China.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
32. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
34. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
35. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
36. A meson produced as the result of high-energy particle collision.
37. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
38. Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward.
40. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
41. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
42. A formal expression of praise.
46. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai people in Mali and Niger.
48. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
49. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
52. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
56. Absolutely still.
57. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
62. Look at with amorous intentions.
63. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
64. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
66. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
67. Declare untrue.
68. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
71. The unit of frequency.
72. An accidental happening.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Not out.
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