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1. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
5. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
11. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
15. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
16. Any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality.
17. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
20. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
21. The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998.
23. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
24. In societies practicing shamanism.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
28. (Assyrian) God of storms and wind.
30. Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium.
34. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
39. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
42. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
43. An argument opposed to a proposal.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. Type genus of the family Zygnemataceae.
49. A state in New England.
51. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
52. Beyond what is natural.
53. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
55. A bottle with a stopper.
57. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
58. Someone who attacks.
62. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
64. Be inherent in something.
65. In bed.
66. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
70. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
73. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
76. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
77. (informal) Of the highest quality.
78. United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924).
80. A strong emotion.
81. A doctor's degree in theology.
82. A great raja.
83. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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1. A machine or person that adds.
2. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
3. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
4. Filled with vapor.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
7. Use explosives on.
8. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
9. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
10. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Remaining after all deductions.
14. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
19. Basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle.
22. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
25. A fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role.
29. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
31. 16 ounces.
32. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
33. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
37. A military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.
38. Raised for its long silky hair which is the true mohair.
40. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
41. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
46. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
47. God of death.
48. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
50. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
54. Emotionally affected.
56. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
59. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
60. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.
61. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
67. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
68. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
69. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
71. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
72. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
74. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
75. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
79. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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