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1. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
4. Linear with respect to each of two variables or positions.
12. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. Disposed or willing to comply.
17. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
18. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
19. An antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches.
20. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
21. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
23. An eight-sided polygon.
25. God of wisdom or prophesy.
28. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
29. An expression of greeting.
31. An iron with considerable loft.
32. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
36. A member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington.
40. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Type genus of the Ranidae.
44. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
47. An uproarious party.
49. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
51. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
55. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic.
57. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
59. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
61. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
65. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
69. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
71. Mild cream-colored Dutch cheese shaped in balls.
72. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
73. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
77. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
78. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
79. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
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1. A quantity of no importance.
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
4. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
5. An iconic mental representation.
6. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
7. A genus of Nymphalidae.
8. A period of time spent sleeping.
9. A Spanish river.
10. A genus of Carangidae.
11. Stock again.
12. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
13. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
14. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
22. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
24. The capital of Turkey.
26. Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908).
27. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
30. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
33. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
34. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
35. English monk and scholar (672-735).
37. A province in north-central China.
38. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana.
39. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
42. A decree that prohibits something.
46. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
48. Anything that covers or conceals.
50. (informal) Exceptionally good.
52. A covered passageway.
53. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering.
58. Of or relating to a fetus.
60. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
62. An informal term for a father.
63. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
64. An informal term for a father.
66. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
67. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
68. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
70. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
74. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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