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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. The direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes.
12. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. The basic unit of money in Albania.
16. A medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain.
17. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
18. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
19. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
20. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
25. Teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately).
27. The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war.
29. A headlike protuberance on an organ or structure.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Divisible by two.
36. Treated with wax.
39. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
40. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
48. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
51. Wearing a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness.
54. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
55. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
56. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
57. A woman who cohabits with an important man.
58. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
62. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
65. A Hindu prince or king in India.
69. A boy or man.
70. Coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals.
74. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
75. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
79. A city in southwestern California east of Los Angeles.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
3. Jordan's port.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. The vein in the center of a leaf.
6. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
7. The extreme end of something.
8. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
9. Treated dishonorably.
10. Not out.
11. Become steeper.
12. Enthusiastic approval.
13. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
14. Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles.
21. Having a broad or rounded end.
23. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. A building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks.
28. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
31. The basic unit of money in Panama.
34. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
35. In a racy manner.
37. Half the width of an em.
38. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
41. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
42. A woman of refinement.
43. An associate degree in nursing.
46. Shaped like a cube.
49. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. Something very ugly and offensive.
59. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
60. Secured or held in place by tape.
61. Any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe.
63. A Loloish language.
64. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
67. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
68. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
71. An accountant certified by the state.
72. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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