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1. Be teeming, be abuzz.
5. One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
17. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
18. The protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes.
20. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
21. Affect with wonder.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
31. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
32. An ancient city in northwestern Iran.
35. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
37. The capital of Western Samoa.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
40. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak.
41. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
46. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
48. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
49. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
51. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
53. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. Little known Kamarupan languages.
57. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
58. The eleventh month of the civil year.
60. Expected hopefully.
62. Black tropical American cuckoo.
63. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
65. Late time of life.
66. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
68. New Zealand conifer.
74. A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste.
76. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way.
78. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
79. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
80. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
82. Of the blackest black.
83. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
84. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
85. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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1. An oral poliovirus vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
2. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
3. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
4. Makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes.
5. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
6. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
7. Of or relating to the heart.
8. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
9. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
10. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
11. Not only so, but.
12. The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke.
13. The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
14. An active and efficient cause.
19. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
22. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
25. United States writer (born in 1933).
27. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
29. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
30. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
33. Greek god of light.
34. Top part of an apron.
36. Of or relating to the gonads.
39. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
41. The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
42. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.
43. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
45. The property of being acidic.
47. God of love and erotic desire.
50. Expressing pain or agony.
52. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
73. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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