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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront.
12. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
15. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
16. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
17. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
18. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
19. React with bromine.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
21. The state of a serf.
23. Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A fabric woven with lisle thread.
31. Not absolute or complete.
35. Place in a grave or tomb.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. An endorsement.
39. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
40. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
43. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
46. Sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
50. Surpass in speed.
51. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
53. Being one more than one hundred.
54. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
55. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
57. Formed or united into a whole.
59. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
60. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
61. Having testicles or ovaries removed.
64. A bachelor's degree in science.
65. A Hindu prince or king in India.
69. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
70. Any plant of the genus Inula.
73. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
74. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
78. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
79. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. The compass point that is one point south of southwest.
2. An account describing incidents or events.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
5. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
6. A self-governing colony of Denmark on the Faroe Islands.
7. Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
8. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
9. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
10. Fragile branching stoneworts.
11. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
12. A genus of European owls.
13. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
24. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
26. The Creator.
27. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
29. An inflow.
30. The beginning of anything.
32. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
33. The provincial capital of Veneto.
34. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
36. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
41. Made from goats' milk.
42. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
44. An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess.
45. A city in northwestern Somalia.
47. The capital and largest city of Burundi.
48. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff.
52. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
56. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
58. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
62. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
63. Deeply moved.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
67. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
68. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
71. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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