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1. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
4. A legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Someone who tells a story.
17. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
18. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
19. Earlier a god.
20. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
21. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
22. A slender graceful young woman.
23. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
25. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
27. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants.
29. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
31. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
32. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
40. A coffin along with its stand.
44. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
45. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
47. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
49. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
50. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
51. (chemistry) Relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical.
53. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
56. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
57. The extent of something from side to side.
59. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
62. Most important element.
65. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
68. A notable achievement.
69. Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.
71. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
73. A master's degree in business.
74. A resource.
75. Strengthen or make more firm.
77. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
79. In a modest manner.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. A city in northwestern Syria.
3. A person who handles or caresses in a clumsy or over-familiar manner.
4. Not asked for.
5. One who is employed to saw wood.
6. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
7. Liqueur poured over shaved ice.
8. In a hasty and foolhardy manner.
9. (Sumerian) Sun god.
10. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere.
11. A distinguishing feature of one's personal nature.
12. In consequence of which.
13. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
14. An unforeseen obstacle.
24. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
26. Sour or bitter in taste.
28. A large fleet.
30. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
34. Not fitting closely.
35. Of or relating to or involving an area.
37. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
38. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
39. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
41. To fix or set securely or deeply.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
43. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup.
46. Resembling air or having the form of air.
48. Outer membrane covering an axon.
52. Toward the mouth or oral region.
54. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
55. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
58. A boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
64. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
66. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
67. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
70. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
72. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
76. A public promotion of some product or service.
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