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1. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
4. Lacking gonads.
12. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. German composer (1833-1897).
20. A person to whom money is paid.
21. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. Capital and largest city of Italy.
25. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
28. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
30. A tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage.
32. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
33. Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range.
35. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
39. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
43. The largest of the Balearic Islands.
46. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
48. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
52. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
56. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
58. A festival featuring African-American culture.
60. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
63. French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330).
74. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
75. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
76. To modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo.
77. The residue that remains when something is burned.
78. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
79. Reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain.
80. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
5. European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears.
6. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
7. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
8. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
9. Absent-minded dreaming while awake.
10. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
11. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
12. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
13. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
14. An oil port in southern Iraq.
19. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
24. Either extremity of something that has length.
26. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
27. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
29. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. Do something to an excessive degree.
34. Offering little or no hope.
36. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
37. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
41. Fallow deer.
42. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
44. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
45. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
47. A cruel and brutal fellow.
49. Wasting time.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. A Serbian province in southern Yugoslavia populated predominantly by Albanians.
59. A deficiency of red blood cells.
61. Lower in esteem.
62. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
64. In bed.
65. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
66. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
67. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
68. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
69. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
72. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
73. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
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