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1. Rate of revolution of a motor.
4. Successfully completed or brought to an end.
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Produce ankylosis by surgery.
17. A resource.
18. Farther along in space or time or degree.
20. An army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions.
21. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
22. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. The content of cognition.
29. Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way.
31. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
32. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
36. Not only so, but.
38. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
46. A sudden short attack.
47. A festival featuring African-American culture.
50. A smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows.
52. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
53. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
54. Offering fun and gaiety.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
58. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
63. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
67. Russian composer (1804-1857).
70. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
72. A unit of pressure.
73. Of or containing iridium.
76. A social division of (usually preliterate) people.
77. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
78. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
80. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
81. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
82. Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves.
83. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
2. Appeal or request earnestly.
3. By chance.
4. Type genus of the Ranidae.
5. Either extremity of something that has length.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
9. Arranged according to size.
10. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
11. Lose confidence or hope.
12. Extremely pleasing.
13. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
14. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
19. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
23. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
25. An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull).
28. United States space station.
30. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
34. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail.
35. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
37. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
39. A jaunty rhythm in music.
40. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
42. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
44. By bad luck.
45. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
48. An extreme state of adversity.
49. In bed.
51. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers.
57. The second largest continent.
59. Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose.
61. The vein in the center of a leaf.
62. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
64. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
65. (music) The speed at which a composition is to be played.
66. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. A particular environment or walk of life.
71. The act of scanning.
74. Water frozen in the solid state.
75. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
79. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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