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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. A tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles.
12. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
15. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
16. An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity.
17. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
20. How long something has existed.
21. Being eight more than sixty.
23. Relating to the belt or region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast, as in "neritic fauna".
25. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
28. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
31. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
33. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
36. (anatomy) Occurring singly.
38. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. (architecture) Oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. Being four more than seventy.
45. (Babylonian) The sky god.
46. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. Not easy to combine harmoniously.
56. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
57. Before noon.
58. Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants).
60. Give over.
62. A state in the eastern United States.
63. The sixth month of the civil year.
64. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
69. A doctor's degree in music.
72. The month following July and preceding September.
73. An example regarded as typical of its class.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
78. Impose a penalty on.
79. (informal) Roused to anger.
80. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
81. Earnest or urgent request.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
2. The second largest city in Tunisia.
3. Speaking a Slavic language.
4. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
5. Inflammation of the ileum.
6. A rapid bustling commotion.
7. A circumscribed geographical region characterized by some distinctive features.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
10. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
11. English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935).
12. A river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River.
13. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
24. A numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
27. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
29. Not restricted to any particular zone or region.
30. A convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain.
32. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
35. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
37. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
47. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
48. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
49. Hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
54. A fraudulent business scheme.
55. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
59. Open to change.
61. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
65. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
66. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
67. Caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted.
68. Type genus of the Amiidae.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. An informal term for a father.
74. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
75. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
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