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1. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
4. Tropical Asiatic perennial herbs.
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
15. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
16. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
17. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
18. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
19. An unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained from plants.
20. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
21. Having toothlike projections in the margin.
23. Being one more than ten.
25. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
26. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
28. A cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend.
34. An associate degree in applied science.
35. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
36. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
37. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. A group of countries in special alliance.
44. A young woman making her debut into society.
45. A slender double-reed instrument.
47. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
49. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
51. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
52. Seed of a pea plant.
53. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
55. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
58. A large and stately mansion.
60. Shout loudly and without restraint.
61. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
62. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
66. The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.
70. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
74. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
77. A decree that prohibits something.
78. One or some or every or all without specification.
79. Relating to or being a palace.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. With no effort to conceal.
2. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
3. Any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes.
4. An underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome).
5. Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.
6. Read anew.
7. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
8. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
9. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
10. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
11. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
12. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. Disabled in the feet or legs.
22. Considerate and solicitous care.
24. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
27. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
29. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
30. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
31. A genus of Ploceidae.
32. Appeal or request earnestly.
33. Dark somewhat brownish black n 1.
39. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
40. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
42. 1 species.
43. Colloquial British abbreviation.
46. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
48. Shepherd's purse.
50. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
54. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
56. The state of existing and being localized in space.
57. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
63. Jordan's port.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
68. A person of French descent.
69. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
71. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
72. Having much flesh (especially fat).
73. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
75. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
76. A state in New England.
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