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1. Ceremonial elegance and splendor.
5. European fishes.
12. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
15. An elaborate song for solo voice.
16. Any of the salts of hydrobromic acid.
17. The month following July and preceding September.
18. Possessing material wealth.
19. (physics) Of or pertaining to a meson.
20. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
22. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
24. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
26. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
28. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
29. A drama set to music.
31. Jordan's port.
35. Evil or harmful in nature or influence.
38. Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female.
41. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
42. The superior of an abbey of monks.
45. A straight line connecting two points on a curve.
46. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
48. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
50. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
51. In operation or operational.
52. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
54. The second largest continent.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
60. That is to say.
62. A light touch or stroke.
67. Nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste.
70. A member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council).
71. Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.
73. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
74. (informal) Of the highest quality.
75. A person who worships idols.
78. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
79. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
80. Cosmopolitan genus of ferns.
81. (Irish) The sea personified.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis.
3. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
4. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).
5. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
6. The craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium.
7. Having a dusty purplish pink color.
8. Type genus of the Amiidae.
9. Typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects.
10. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
11. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
12. Greek mythology.
13. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
14. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
21. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
34. A genus of Pyralidae.
36. A particular environment or walk of life.
37. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
39. One million periods per second.
40. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
43. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
44. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
47. A fee charged for the use of pipes.
49. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
53. A town in east central Missouri.
55. A portable gun.
56. Arm again.
59. A port city in southwestern Iran.
61. A soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider.
63. A farewell remark.
64. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
65. Events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something.
66. Typical geese.
68. Belonging to some prior time.
69. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
72. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
77. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
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