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1. Using speech rather than writing.
5. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. (computer science) Protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network.
15. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
16. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
17. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
18. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
19. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
20. Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or gray eyes.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
24. Regional and archaic.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
39. Order by virtue of superior authority.
43. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
47. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
48. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
50. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
52. The seventh and last day of the week.
54. (British) Liable to payment of rates or taxes.
56. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
57. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
59. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
61. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
64. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
68. Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968).
72. Type genus of the Amiidae.
73. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
78. A firearm that is held and fired with one hand.
79. A form of address for a married woman.
80. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
81. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
82. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
2. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The basic unit of money on Malta.
5. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
6. Any plant of the genus Erica.
7. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
8. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
9. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
12. All the plant life in a particular region.
13. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
14. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
25. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
28. An awkward stupid person.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
32. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
33. A flexible container with a single opening.
34. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
36. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
37. Social status or position conferred by a system based on class.
38. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
40. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
41. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
42. A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess).
44. A Hindu prince or king in India.
49. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
51. A genus of Lamnidae.
53. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
55. A mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture).
58. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
60. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
62. Apple trees.
63. An active and efficient cause.
65. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
66. A movable organ for flying (one of a pair).
67. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
69. Avatar of Vishnu.
70. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
71. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
74. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
75. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
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