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1. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
4. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
12. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
15. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
16. Someone who operates an aircraft.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. Either of two broad muscles located on either side of the neck and innervated by the facial nerve.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Deliberately impassive in manner.
23. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
25. Any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. In the near future.
36. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
40. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia.
43. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
44. A pass between mountain peaks.
45. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
46. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
48. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
49. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
55. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
58. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
60. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
64. Associated with academia or an academy.
69. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
70. An infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism.
73. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
74. Black tropical American cuckoo.
75. Bubble shells.
76. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
77. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
78. Unsegmented worms.
79. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
3. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
4. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
5. Become less tense.
6. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
7. A very small circular shape.
8. One or some or every or all without specification.
9. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
10. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
11. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
12. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. Think moodily or anxiously about something.
24. Razor clams.
26. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
27. Before noon.
29. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
30. The basic unit of money in Iran.
33. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
34. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
35. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
37. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
50. Toward the mouth or oral region.
52. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
56. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
63. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.
68. The content of cognition.
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