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1. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
4. Narrow and long and pointed.
11. Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices.
15. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
16. A town in east central Missouri.
17. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. Any handsome young man.
20. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
21. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
23. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
24. A coagulated liquid resembling milk curd.
25. English playwright (1575-1634).
27. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
31. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
33. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
37. Not only so, but.
39. Not according with the facts.
41. The player judged to be the most important to the sport.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. The products of human creativity.
46. British politician (1788-1850).
48. An endorsement.
49. A horse used to set the pace in racing.
51. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia.
53. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
55. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
61. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
63. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
69. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
70. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
73. Of or like a cecum.
74. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
75. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
77. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
78. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
79. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
80. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
3. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
4. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
5. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
6. The capital and largest city of Japan.
7. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
8. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
9. Infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances.
12. Relating to the Urdu language.
13. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
14. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
22. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
26. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
29. American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818).
30. Greek mythology.
32. (informal) Of very poor quality.
34. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
35. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
36. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. United States comic actor in silent films.
50. Towards the shore from the water.
52. Clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
58. A light informal meal.
59. A mistake resulting from inattention.
60. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
62. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
64. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
65. English monk and scholar (672-735).
66. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
67. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
68. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
71. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
72. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
76. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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