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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. Covered with paving material.
11. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
15. Take in solid food.
16. A swaggering show of courage.
17. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
18. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
20. Spanish Catholic theologian and founder of the Society of Jesus.
22. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
23. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
25. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
27. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
30. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
34. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
39. A state in New England.
40. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
42. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
43. The quality of being able to perform.
47. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. (plural) Rare collector's items.
50. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
51. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
53. A primeval personification of air and breath.
55. The dignity or rank or position of a duke.
58. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
60. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
62. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
63. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
70. Provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia.
75. The capital of Croatia.
77. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
79. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
80. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
81. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
83. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
84. Having been read.
85. An inland sea in northwestern Turkey.
86. A local computer network for communication between computers.
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1. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
2. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
3. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
4. A master's degree in business.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
7. Admit openly and bluntly.
8. The time during which someone's life continues.
9. A rapid bustling commotion.
10. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
11. A doctor's degree in optometry.
12. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
13. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
14. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
19. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
21. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. British composer (1857-1934).
28. Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. A genus of Stromateidae.
32. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
33. An unwholesome atmosphere.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A support or foundation.
37. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
45. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
46. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
52. Bred of parents not closely related.
54. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
56. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
57. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
59. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
61. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
64. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
67. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. A blind god.
71. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
72. Fail to do something.
73. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
74. A city of central China.
76. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
78. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
82. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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