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1. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
4. Type genus of the family Astacidae.
11. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
15. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
16. A benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass.
17. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
18. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
19. A formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person.
20. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
21. A quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1.
23. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
24. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
26. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
29. A river in the east central United States.
35. An associate degree in nursing.
36. Offering fun and gaiety.
38. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
39. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
41. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
43. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
44. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
45. Give a nickname to.
47. By bad luck.
50. Being one more than two.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
53. Freshwater duck of Eurasia and North Africa related to mallards and teals.
55. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
58. (British) The dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally).
59. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
63. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
65. Having or localized centrally at a focus.
69. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
70. A situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad).
72. Cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits.
74. (Irish) The sea personified.
75. Largest known toad species.
76. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
78. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
79. A vertical spar for supporting sails.
80. Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.
81. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
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1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
2. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. Of people.
4. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
5. A bag provided on an airplane for passengers who are suffering from airsickness and need to vomit.
6. Considerate and solicitous care.
7. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
8. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
9. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
10. A deep bow.
11. A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
12. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. A city in northern India.
22. In the area or vicinity.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Toenail having its free tip or edges embedded in the surrounding flesh.
31. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
32. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
33. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
34. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
37. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
40. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
42. Shout loudly and without restraint.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Pronounce with an initial sibilant.
49. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
51. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
54. A light touch or stroke.
56. Small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites.
57. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
60. Indigo bush.
61. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
62. Become one.
64. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
66. Belonging to some prior time.
67. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
68. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
71. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
73. A boy or man.
77. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
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