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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
12. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
15. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
16. Nonsensical talk or writing.
17. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
18. (Welsh myth) The other world.
20. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
21. A large bottle with a narrow mouth.
22. A city in east central Texas.
23. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
25. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
27. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
29. Of or relating to herbs.
30. A city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Pittsburgh.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. Lamb leg suitable for roasting.
42. Being one more than fifty.
43. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
46. A member of the Pueblo people living in western New Mexico.
47. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
51. (Irish) The sea personified.
52. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
55. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
57. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
59. One thousand periods per second.
60. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
61. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
63. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
65. Tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers.
68. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
72. An elaborate song for solo voice.
73. Of or pertaining to or affected by albinism.
76. (informal) Roused to anger.
77. Lacking excess flesh.
78. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
81. All the weapons and equipment that a country has.
82. Water soaked soil.
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1. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
2. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
3. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner.
4. Not in operation or operational.
5. Maintain or assert.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
8. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
9. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
10. (anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.
11. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
14. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
19. Concerning or dwelling or situated in a wood.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.
28. The food served and eaten at one time.
31. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
32. Informal terms for a mother.
34. Wild llama.
37. A young woman making her debut into society.
39. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
40. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
41. A picturesque mountainous province of western Austria.
44. Unknown god.
45. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
48. Of or relating to a meal.
49. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
50. Pertaining to the purchase of insurance policies from terminally ill policy holders.
53. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
54. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
56. (informal) Exceptionally good.
58. Someone who guards prisoners.
62. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
64. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
66. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
67. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
69. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
70. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
74. Water frozen in the solid state.
75. (British) Your grandmother.
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