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1. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
5. A river in the east central United States.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
15. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
16. The capital and largest city of Libya.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
19. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
20. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
22. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
24. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
26. Island in West Indies.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
32. Of or relating to neuroglia.
33. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
35. An associate degree in applied science.
37. Half the width of an em.
38. An endorsement.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. A fraudulent business scheme.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
48. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
56. Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way.
58. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
59. A Russian river.
60. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
62. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
63. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
65. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
68. Common Indian weaverbird.
71. Forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails.
74. A condition requiring relief.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A master's degree in business.
79. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
80. A consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1.
81. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
82. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
83. Some held in custody.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
2. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
3. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
4. Someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself.
5. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
6. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
7. Italian painter (1696-1770).
8. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
9. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
12. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
13. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
14. Sour or bitter in taste.
21. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
23. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
25. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. Step on it.
31. The face or front of a building.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Gallery where works of art can be displayed.
39. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
44. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
45. A master's degree in library science.
46. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning.
52. Unknown god.
53. Not divisible by two.
54. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
55. Outer membrane covering an axon.
57. Administer baptism to.
61. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
64. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. A city in northern India.
70. Noisy talk.
72. Deeply moved.
73. A short personal letter.
76. An informal term for a father.
77. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
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