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1. Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate.
5. Acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan).
12. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
15. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
16. A city in southeastern Spain.
17. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
18. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
19. A stiff straw hat with a flat crown.
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
24. Take in solid food.
25. A primeval personification of air and breath.
28. A soft whitish calcite.
31. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
32. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
40. A handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood.
42. A structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young.
44. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
45. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
46. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
47. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
49. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
52. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe.
53. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
57. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
59. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
61. A V-shaped indentation.
65. South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers.
68. The sign language used in the United States.
70. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
71. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
72. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
74. 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.
76. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
77. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
78. Genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers.
80. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
81. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
82. A mishap.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. A short musical composition with words.
4. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
5. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
6. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
7. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
8. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
9. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
10. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
11. (British) Your grandmother.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
22. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
23. French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism.
26. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range.
27. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
29. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
30. Malicious burning to destroy property.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. Not in a state of sleep.
38. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
39. A unit of temperature on the Rankine scale.
41. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
43. (music) The speed at which a composition is to be played.
48. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
50. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
51. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high).
54. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
58. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
60. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
62. Covered or furnished with tiles.
63. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
64. A reddish-brown chloride of heme.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
69. (informal) Valuable goods.
73. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
75. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
79. A state in southeastern United States.
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