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1. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
4. Graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine.
12. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
15. Take in solid food.
16. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
17. A licensed medical practitioner.
18. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
20. Something that happens at a given place and time.
21. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
22. The basic unit of money in Honduras.
24. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
26. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
29. An additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed.
32. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
35. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
38. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
40. Someone who is regarded as contemptible.
42. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
43. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
44. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
46. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
49. How long something has existed.
50. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
51. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
53. (informal) Diamonds.
55. Half the width of an em.
57. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
59. (Irish) The sea personified.
60. A Mid-Atlantic state.
62. A state in New England.
64. Showing deterioration from age.
66. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
70. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
72. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
74. A city in northern India.
75. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
77. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
78. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
79. Situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience.
80. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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1. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
2. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
3. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
4. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan.
5. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
6. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
7. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
8. The act of deciding to do something.
9. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
10. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
11. A measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body.
12. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
13. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
14. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
19. Large Old World butterflies.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
25. Type genus of the Gavidae.
27. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
28. Husband of Elizabeth II of Great Britain (born 1921).
30. Not affected by wear.
31. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
33. Formed or united into a whole.
34. A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere).
36. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
37. The location of something surrounded by other things.
39. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
41. A proud stiff pompous gait.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
48. A card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib.
52. From 230 million to 280 million years ago.
54. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
56. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
58. Type genus of the Sialidae.
61. (Scotland) A landowner.
63. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
65. A republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
67. Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices.
68. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
71. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
73. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
76. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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