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1. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
4. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
12. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
15. A rapid bustling commotion.
16. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
17. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
18. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
19. Become soft or disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
21. Treated irreverently or sacrilegiously.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Someone who travels by air.
28. Before noon.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
35. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
41. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
42. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
44. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
45. God of the underworld.
46. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
47. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
51. Common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers.
53. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
55. Horned sheep of Devon.
56. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
61. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
68. Inquire about.
71. The cry made by sheep.
72. Produce a literary work.
75. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
76. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
78. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
79. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
80. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An inhabitant of Lappland.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. The West AFrican language of the Wolof people in Senegal.
4. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
5. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
6. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
7. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
8. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
9. Jordan's port.
10. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
13. Loose or flaccid body fat.
14. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
22. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
24. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
26. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. (trademark) An antacid.
32. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
33. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
34. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
36. A medieval oboe.
37. A Loloish language.
38. Australian clover fern.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
48. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
49. A radioactive transuranic element.
50. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
52. A wine bottle made of leather.
54. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
57. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
62. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
63. A telephone connection.
64. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
65. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
66. Little known Kamarupan languages.
67. Cut off the testicles.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
74. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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