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1. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
4. A monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system.
12. (British) Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms.
15. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
16. Capable of being raised to an upright position.
17. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
18. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
19. A unit of resistance equal to one million ohms.
20. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
22. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
24. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
26. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. Herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers.
32. Russian composer (1804-1857).
36. A body of troops arranged in a line.
38. Dividing an animal into right and left halves.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
40. Jordan's port.
43. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
44. (British) Your grandmother.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. (Scottish) A long dagger with a straight blade.
48. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
50. Cry plaintively.
52. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
53. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
55. A large number or amount.
58. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. Remove carbon from (an engine).
67. Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.
69. Stripped of drapery.
71. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
74. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
75. (informal) Of the highest quality.
76. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
79. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
80. Up to the present time.
81. A Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy.
82. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
2. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
3. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
4. A synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain.
5. Aromatic Eurasian perennial.
6. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
7. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
8. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
9. Regularly spaced in time.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. Based on sound reasoning or evidence.
12. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
13. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
14. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
21. Being without physical aid.
23. Closed with a lace.
25. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
27. Tropical Asian starlings.
30. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
31. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
33. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
34. Resin of the kauri trees of N Zealand.
35. Having the same or similar characteristics.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. (informal) Exceptionally good.
45. A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia halfway between New Guinea and Japan.
49. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
51. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
54. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
56. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
57. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
59. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located.
60. A medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard.
62. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
64. A drama set to music.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
68. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
70. Type genus of the Nepidae.
72. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
73. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
77. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
78. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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