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1. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
4. Hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Pygmy marmosets.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
20. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
22. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
26. Small needle-like appendage.
30. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
32. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
35. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
36. A radioactive transuranic element.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
43. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
44. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
45. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
46. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
48. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
50. Cause to break up or function, as of groups and organizations.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. Enthusiastic approval.
56. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
61. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
63. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
64. Pleasantly occupied.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. A native-born Israeli.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
79. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
80. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
81. Either extremity of something that has length.
82. A great raja.
83. A light touch or stroke.
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1. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605).
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
6. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
7. The month following July and preceding September.
8. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
9. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
10. 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.
11. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
12. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
13. Fallow deer.
14. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
19. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
21. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
24. Rendered motionless for lack of wind.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A bachelor's degree in theology.
28. A large fleet.
29. Formality in bearing and appearance.
31. A domain in which something is dominant.
33. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
34. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
37. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
40. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
42. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
47. God of wealth and love.
51. English monk and scholar (672-735).
57. Being ten more than eighty.
58. A state in midwestern United States.
60. The basic unit of money in Spain.
67. With no effort to conceal.
72. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
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