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1. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
4. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae.
12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
16. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
17. A boy or man.
18. Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves.
20. A small smooth rounded rock.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
25. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
29. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
31. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
33. Goddess of fate.
36. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. Covered with scabs.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
42. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
45. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
46. Found along western Atlantic coast.
48. Crowd or pack to capacity.
50. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
51. A state in northwestern North America.
52. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
54. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
58. Of or relating to the language of Germans.
60. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
62. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
63. Set down according to a plan.
64. Affected manners intended to impress others.
67. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
71. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
74. United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962).
75. 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.
76. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
78. (British) Your grandmother.
79. A master's degree in education.
80. A great raja.
81. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
3. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
4. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
5. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
6. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
7. A doctor's degree in optometry.
8. Imperial moths.
9. Being five more than one hundred.
10. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
11. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
12. American dramatist (1928- ).
13. 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.
14. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
19. Either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox-like head.
21. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
24. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
26. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
27. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
34. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
35. Of or relating to a dyad or based on two.
38. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
40. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
43. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
44. A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate.
47. A committee having supervisory powers.
49. The month following February and preceding April.
53. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
55. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
56. Above the surround or above the normal position.
57. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
59. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
61. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
65. Type genus of the Ranidae.
66. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
68. As if new.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
70. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
72. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
73. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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