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1. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
4. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
11. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
15. Being two more than fifty.
16. Declared but not proved.
17. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
18. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
20. At surface level.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. The 4th planet from the sun.
25. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
26. The Creator.
28. 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.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
34. A book of the New Testament.
38. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
42. Denuded of leaves.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
44. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
46. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
48. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
51. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
52. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
54. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
55. Acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan).
57. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
59. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
60. An informal term for a father.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
65. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
69. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
75. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
76. Framework for holding objects.
77. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
78. A state in midwestern United States.
79. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
80. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
84. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
85. Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences.
86. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
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1. Exactly vertical.
2. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
3. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
6. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
7. United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969).
8. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
11. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
12. By bad luck.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
19. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
23. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. (informal) Roused to anger.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Talking idly or incoherently.
33. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
35. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
36. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
37. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
45. Any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action.
47. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
49. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
50. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
58. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
61. With rapid movements.
63. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
64. At full speed.
66. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
67. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
68. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
70. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
72. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
73. Covered with frost.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
81. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
82. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
83. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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