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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs.
12. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
15. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
16. Brush turkeys.
17. A Nilotic language.
18. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
19. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
20. (of weather) Wet by periods of rain.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A Hindu prince or king in India.
27. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
29. Type genus of the Spalacidae.
31. A slang term for a jail.
36. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
39. Cruel or inhumane treatment.
40. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
43. Half the width of an em.
44. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. The quantity contained in a keg.
47. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
49. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
52. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. Having leadership guidance.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
66. Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset.
69. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
70. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
71. A letter sent by air mail.
74. A master's degree in business.
75. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
76. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
77. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
78. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
79. A worker engaged in making steel.
80. An informal term for a father.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
5. Arctic foxes.
6. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
7. Cricket frogs.
8. As of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a wound.
9. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
10. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. English essayist (1775-1834).
13. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
14. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
21. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
23. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
24. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
26. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
28. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
30. Situated in a particular spot or position.
32. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
33. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
35. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
38. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
41. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
42. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
48. Relieve from military service.
50. By bad luck.
51. By chance.
53. A loose cloak with a hood.
56. An unsuccessful ending.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
60. Black-and-white diving bird of northern seas.
62. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
63. Regularly spaced in time.
64. A native-born Israeli.
65. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
67. (Welsh) A warrior god.
68. Lacking companions or companionship.
72. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
73. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
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