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1. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
4. Showing lack of attention or boredom.
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
15. The basic unit of money in Romania.
16. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
17. Fiddler crabs.
18. The fatty flesh of eel.
19. A brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form.
20. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
21. A contorted facial expression.
23. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
25. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
26. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. An associate degree in nursing.
31. A slight amount or degree of difference.
33. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
37. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
39. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
41. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
43. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
45. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
47. Loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging.
48. Half the width of an em.
49. How long something has existed.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
53. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
56. Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.
58. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
60. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
63. Being one more than one hundred.
64. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
65. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
66. Noisy talk.
68. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
72. A Loloish language.
77. The cry made by sheep.
78. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
79. Not sheared.
80. A cgs unit of work or energy.
81. A Russian river.
82. A place where the wicked are punished after death.
83. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
2. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
3. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
4. A city of southeastern Mexico.
5. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
6. Any cone-shaped artifact.
7. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
8. A small amount (especially of a drink).
9. Try to stir up public opinion.
10. Guinea fowl.
11. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
12. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
13. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
24. By chance.
27. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
30. Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
32. Fallow deer.
34. A city of central China.
35. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
36. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
38. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
42. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
44. Without moral standards or principles.
46. The food served and eaten at one time.
51. Characteristic of a baby.
52. Of or relating to near the ear.
54. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. Small very thin pancake.
61. The act of swimming.
62. A descendent or heir.
67. United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945).
69. In bed.
70. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
71. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
73. Adult female chicken.
74. Small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle.
75. Used of a single unit or thing.
76. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
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