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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. An official written record of names or events or transactions.
12. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. With full strength.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. Tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute.
20. A grant made by a law court.
22. Not only so, but.
23. Jordan's port.
26. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
27. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
29. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
30. A bachelor's degree in science.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
35. Slightly open.
39. Great coolness and composure under strain.
42. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
43. A mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form.
45. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
46. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
48. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
49. To an excessive degree.
53. Arranged without spaces between.
55. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
56. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
57. The residue that remains when something is burned.
60. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
61. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
66. Remove from memory or existence.
68. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
71. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
72. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
74. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
75. Black tropical American cuckoo.
76. On or of upper floors of a building.
79. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
80. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
81. The capital of Tajikistan.
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Posing no difficulty.
2. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
3. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
4. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
5. The fatty flesh of eel.
6. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
7. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
8. A state in north central United States.
9. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
10. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
11. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
14. An informal term for a father.
19. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
21. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
24. Lower in esteem.
25. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
28. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
31. A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle.
34. Distance travelled per unit time.
36. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
37. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
38. Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else.
40. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
41. (of a shore or shoreline) Having an extensive gently sloping area covered with sand or gravel or shingle down to the water line.
44. Innumerable but many.
47. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
50. An oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue.
51. Lie adjacent to another.
52. A native-born Israeli.
54. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
58. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
59. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
62. A particular environment or walk of life.
63. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
64. Follower of Rastafarianism.
65. Deciduous shrub of North America.
67. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
69. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
70. A French abbot.
73. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
77. A radioactive transuranic element that is similar to uranium.
78. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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