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1. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
4. A mining town in southern Wales.
12. A person active in party politics.
15. An associate degree in applied science.
16. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bavaria or its people.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
20. Japanese architect (born in 1913).
21. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
22. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
27. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A Loloish language.
33. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
39. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
46. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
51. Not in good physical or mental health.
52. Muslim name for God.
53. Playful in an appealingly bold way.
58. (combining form) Former.
59. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
62. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. The act of scanning.
65. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
69. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
74. A human limb.
75. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
77. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
78. A master's degree in business.
79. A prominent supporter.
80. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
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1. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
2. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
3. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
6. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
7. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
8. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
9. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
10. A small piece of cloth.
11. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
12. Music performed for dancing the polka.
13. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
14. A genus of Lamnidae.
19. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
24. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
25. Having winglike extensions.
28. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
29. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. United States violinist (born in Austria) (1875-1962).
34. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
35. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
36. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
37. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
38. (in Scotland) A child.
40. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
41. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
42. The sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing a developing bud.
45. (Scotland) A landowner.
48. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
50. A support that you can lean against while sitting.
54. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
55. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
56. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
57. Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of.
60. Sour or bitter in taste.
61. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
66. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
67. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
68. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
70. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
71. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
72. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
73. A flexible container with a single opening.
76. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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