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1. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
4. An oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue.
12. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
15. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
16. City in central Iran.
17. An antiviral drug used in the treatment of AIDS.
18. Food for domestic livestock.
20. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
22. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. An implement used to erase something.
27. A branch of the Tai languages.
29. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
35. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
37. A town on Long Island in New York.
41. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
42. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
44. The capital of Western Samoa.
45. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
47. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
49. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer.
58. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
60. French philosopher and theologian.
62. Raised for its long silky hair which is the true mohair.
66. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
68. English natural scientist whose `On the Origin of Species' formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882).
69. A French abbot.
70. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
74. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
75. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
76. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
78. A garment that covers the head and face.
79. A suburb of Paris.
80. Land received by fee tail v 1.
81. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
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1. (British slang) Cafe.
2. The content of cognition.
3. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
4. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
5. The residue that remains when something is burned.
6. Express in speech.
7. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
10. Beneath the surface of the sea.
11. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
12. The amount a salary is increased.
13. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
14. The beginning of anything.
19. Make unable to perform a certain action.
21. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. Be agitated.
28. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
30. Traveling on horseback.
31. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
32. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
33. Type genus of the Amiidae.
36. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
40. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
43. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
46. Indigo bush.
48. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
52. Tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia.
53. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
54. Write upon.
56. Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish.
57. The state of existing and being localized in space.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
63. Someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business.
64. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
65. Administer an oil or ointment to.
67. Little known Kamarupan languages.
71. A sheath worn to protect a finger.
72. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
73. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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