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1. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
4. Walk about.
12. A shape that sags.
15. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
16. Type genus of the Haemulidae.
17. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. The property of excessive fatness.
20. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
21. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
23. Of or relating to Libya or its people.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. The sacred city of Lamaism.
29. The act of rising upward into the air.
31. An associate degree in nursing.
33. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
34. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
41. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
43. Being nine more than forty.
46. Taking place over public roads.
47. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
48. Late time of life.
50. Jordan's port.
52. A master's degree in business.
53. The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.
56. The face or front of a building.
59. Before noon.
60. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. A circular segment of a curve.
64. A bag filled with sand.
67. In football.
71. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
72. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
74. Distant in either space or time.
75. Electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded.
77. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
78. Posing no difficulty.
79. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
80. A town in north central Oklahoma.
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1. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
6. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
7. An official at a baseball game.
8. A city in east central China.
9. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
10. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
11. Store in a silo, as of fodder.
12. A fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts).
13. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
14. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
22. A native of ancient Troy.
24. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
27. The cry made by sheep.
30. (of drugs) Through the mouth rather than through injection.
32. A state in the eastern United States.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
39. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
40. State in northeastern India.
42. Softened by the addition of cushions or padding.
44. Any taillike structure.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. The quality of being slow to understand.
51. Characteristic of a baby.
54. English poet (1554-1586).
55. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
57. Wear away.
58. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
63. A Muslim council of state.
65. Largest known toad species.
66. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
68. On or toward the lee.
69. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
70. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
73. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
76. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
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