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1. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
4. The capital and largest city of Wales.
11. Make an etching of.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Regional and archaic.
17. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
18. A broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle.
20. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
22. Soft creamy white cheese.
23. Taking place over public roads.
25. An iconic mental representation.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. Make less active or intense.
31. Possible to sell.
35. Of or relating to or containing basalt.
39. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
41. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
42. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
43. Towards the side away from the wind.
48. Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira.
50. Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis.
51. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
52. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
53. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
54. One million periods per second.
55. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
59. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
65. The cry made by sheep.
69. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
72. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
73. Freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water.
75. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
76. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
77. Containing or expressing accusation.
79. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
80. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
81. A person who lives in the dales of Northern England.
82. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
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1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. Of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
5. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
6. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
9. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
10. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
12. A three-tone Chadic language.
13. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
14. (sport) Used of your own ground.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism.
24. A light touch or stroke.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
30. Robber flies.
32. (of experimental animals) Raised under sterile conditions.
33. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
34. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
36. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
37. An Asian river.
38. An angular shape made by folding.
44. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
45. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
46. An enclosed space.
47. (trademark) Nylon fabric used as a fastening.
49. A genus of Mustelidae.
56. The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.
58. Female peafowl.
60. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
61. Type genus of the Phocidae.
62. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
63. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
64. Any plant of the genus Erica.
66. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
70. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
78. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
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