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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Beat with a cane.
12. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. (of water) Rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure.
17. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
18. A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force.
20. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods.
24. A professional killer who uses a gun.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
27. Sucking lice.
30. Having the slant of a bevel.
32. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
33. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A very light brown.
42. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
44. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
47. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
50. Not divisible by two.
51. A human limb.
52. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
53. (archaic) The meeting place of a medieval guild.
56. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. 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.
62. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
64. A unit of power equal to one million watts.
68. The eleventh month of the civil year.
69. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
71. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
72. A mixer incorporating a coil of wires.
75. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
77. Distant in either space or time.
80. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
81. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
83. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
84. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
85. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (used in combination) "the economy-size package".
2. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
3. An Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars.
4. The habitation of wild animals.
5. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
6. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
7. The act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
9. Term of address for a man.
10. A city in southeastern South Korea.
11. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
12. A fraudulent business scheme.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. A city of central China.
19. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
23. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
25. Greek mythology.
28. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
29. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
31. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
34. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
35. A baby bed with sides and rockers.
36. A light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races.
39. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
43. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
45. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
46. A boy or man.
48. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
49. An imperfection in a device or machine.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
55. A blind god.
57. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
59. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
63. A genus of Indriidae.
65. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
66. A grant made by a law court.
67. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
70. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. God of love and erotic desire.
76. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
78. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
79. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
82. Informal terms for a mother.
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