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1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. The phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation.
11. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs.
17. Type genus of the Anatidae.
18. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
20. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
21. A telephone connection.
22. Of or relating to Chios.
23. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
24. Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears.
26. A special way of doing something.
29. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Relating to or lying near the palate.
34. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
37. A state in northwestern North America.
38. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
40. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication.
45. A loud utterance.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. Extremely small in scale or scope or capability.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
56. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
57. An island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
62. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
63. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
65. A magic power or magic spell.
68. Fallow deer.
71. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
73. New Zealand conifer.
74. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
78. One-hundredth of a right angle.
79. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
80. Receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
2. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
3. A town in east central Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
4. A sign of something about to happen.
5. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
6. A state in northwestern North America.
7. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
8. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
10. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
11. An area in Germany around the upper Elbe river.
12. Squash bugs.
13. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
14. A small island.
19. A motley assortment of things.
25. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
27. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative.
28. A town in south central Washington.
32. Elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth.
33. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. Conducive to peace.
39. A state in southeastern United States.
42. Very light colored.
43. Ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length.
44. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
51. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
53. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
54. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
57. Being one more than fifty.
68. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
70. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
77. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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