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1. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
4. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Successfully completed or brought to an end.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. 36th President of the United States.
19. A town in central Belgium.
20. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
22. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
24. Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts.
25. A genus of Ploceidae.
26. A framework that supports climbing plants.
28. A deep bow.
30. Used of a single unit or thing.
31. By bad luck.
32. A very troublesome child.
36. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
40. A coastal area between La Spezia in Italy and Cannes in France.
41. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
44. Slightly open.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
47. Aromatic gum resin.
50. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
52. A state in midwestern United States.
53. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
54. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
55. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
61. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
63. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
69. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
72. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
73. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
76. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
77. Extremely pleasing.
78. South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918).
80. Report or maintain.
81. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
82. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
83. A polite name for any woman.
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1. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
2. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
6. River in eastern Asia.
7. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
8. (anatomy) Situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone.
9. (architecture) Lacking columns or pillars.
10. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
11. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
12. An unofficial association of people or groups.
13. In bed.
14. An informal term for a father.
21. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium.
23. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
27. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
29. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
33. Re-equip a factory or plant.
34. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
35. Covered with paving material.
37. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
38. Jordan's port.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. Dwell (archaic).
46. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
48. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
49. Of a pale purple color.
51. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
56. The herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen.
57. A Russian river.
58. Foul with waste matter.
62. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
68. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
70. A small hard fruit.
71. Suggestive of the supernatural.
74. (Irish) The sea personified.
75. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
79. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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