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1. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. United States professional baseball player noted for his batting ability (1914-1999).
12. Not reflecting light.
15. Being one more than two.
16. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
19. A concave molding.
20. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
21. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
22. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
24. Remove from memory or existence.
29. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
32. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
33. A spoken blessing.
37. The longest division of geological time.
40. United States film actor who appeared in many films with Katharine Hepburn (1900-1967).
41. Disorderly fighting.
43. A country on the island of Dominica.
44. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
45. American dramatist (1928- ).
48. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
51. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
53. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
55. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
57. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
59. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
60. A motley assortment of things.
64. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. A port city in southwestern Iran.
73. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
74. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
75. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae.
77. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
80. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
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1. A Loloish language.
2. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
3. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
4. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
6. Relating to minerals.
7. Build up to a level by depositing sediment.
8. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
9. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
10. Be inherent in something.
11. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
23. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
25. A writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding.
26. (in Scotland) A child.
27. Break the seal of.
28. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
30. Large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil.
31. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
34. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
35. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
36. City in Sudan.
38. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
42. Slightly sour to the taste.
46. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
47. South African term for `boss'.
52. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
54. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
56. A nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine.
58. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
62. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
63. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
65. Very dark black.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
70. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
71. Make or shape as with an axe.
72. An awkward stupid person.
76. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
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