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1. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
4. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
16. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
17. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
18. Either extremity of something that has length.
19. Long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp.
20. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
21. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Columba and Eridanus.
23. A police officer who investigates crimes.
24. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
29. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
32. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. (Norse mythology) Race of ancient gods sometimes in conflict with the Aesir.
35. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. The mother of your father or mother.
39. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
41. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
44. Fiddler crabs.
46. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
48. A jar made of glass or plastic.
49. The capital of Moldova.
53. A popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain.
54. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
56. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
64. A light touch or stroke.
67. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.
72. The sixth month of the civil year.
75. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
77. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
78. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
79. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
80. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
81. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
82. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
3. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
4. Cosmopolitan herbs especially southern hemisphere.
5. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
6. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
7. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
8. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
9. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
10. A local computer network for communication between computers.
11. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
25. A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809).
28. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931).
30. A republic in central Africa.
31. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
33. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
37. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
38. (Greek mythology) A sea god son of Pontus and Gaea.
40. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines.
42. A state in the eastern United States.
43. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
45. Become wider.
47. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
50. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
51. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. A master's degree in business.
63. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. With no effort to conceal.
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