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1. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
4. A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally).
12. A castrated tomcat.
15. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
16. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator).
20. Any thick messy substance.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. The basic unit of money in Macao.
23. Rough brick masonry used to fill in the gaps in a wooden frame.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
31. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
32. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
36. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
38. A beautiful and graceful girl.
39. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
40. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
41. A preacher of the Christian gospel.
44. Lower in esteem.
47. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Not divisible by two.
51. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
52. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
55. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
57. Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission.
59. A vacant lot used by city boys to play games.
63. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
65. A person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable.
67. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
74. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
75. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
77. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
81. A doctor's degree in education.
82. Fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building.
83. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
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1. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
2. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
3. Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg.
4. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
6. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
7. United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932).
8. The sign language used in the United States.
9. To no avail.
10. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
11. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
12. A desert in central Asia.
13. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. Any of various juicy purple- or green-skinned fruit of the genus Vitis.
26. Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution.
27. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
29. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. Of a pale purple color.
33. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
34. A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed v 1.
35. An important person in India.
37. 1/1000 gram.
42. Containing or filled with salt.
43. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
45. A large number or amount.
46. Being somewhat early.
48. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
53. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
54. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
56. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
58. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
61. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
62. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
66. Waterproofed canvas.
68. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
70. One-hundredth of a right angle.
71. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
72. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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