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1. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
4. Someone who communicates by signals.
12. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A valuable timber tree of tropical South America.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
20. English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869).
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
23. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
24. A city in northeastern China.
26. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
28. A particular environment or walk of life.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967).
38. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
41. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
42. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
45. A town in western Washington.
48. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
49. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
50. Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes.
54. A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed v 1.
57. A genus of Accipitridae.
59. Toward the mouth or oral region.
60. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
64. Being one more than eighty.
69. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
70. Being one more than two.
71. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
75. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
76. The mints.
78. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
79. Related by blood.
80. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
81. Either extremity of something that has length.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
3. Characterized by disconcerting directness in manner or speech.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. An informal debt instrument.
6. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
7. A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.
8. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants).
9. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
10. An abstract part of something.
11. Spherical in shape.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A feeling of intense anger.
14. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. Not widely known.
31. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
33. With no effort to conceal.
35. Type genus of the Upupidae.
36. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
37. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
39. Excessively fat.
40. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
43. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
44. An associate degree in nursing.
46. A reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction.
47. United States comedian.
51. Porridge made of rolled oats.
52. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
53. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
55. Small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. A state in midwestern United States.
61. American dramatist (1928- ).
62. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
63. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
65. Being one more than twelve.
66. A city of central China.
67. An elaborate song for solo voice.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. An associate degree in applied science.
73. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
74. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
77. A public promotion of some product or service.
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