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1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
4. Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves.
11. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
15. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
16. Taking the bull by the horns.
17. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
18. Cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth.
20. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
22. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
23. Free from risk or danger.
25. A kiln used to reduce naturally occuring forms of calcium carbonate to lime.
28. Oblong cream puff.
30. Indigo bush.
31. Having removed clothing.
36. The basic unit of money in Macao.
37. A Mid-Atlantic state.
38. An exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before.
40. A long-playing phonograph record.
41. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
43. King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).
45. An associate degree in applied science.
47. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
48. Double-walled stage of the embryo succeeding the blastula.
49. A condition requiring relief.
51. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
54. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
58. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
61. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
64. An intuitive awareness.
65. Toward the mouth or oral region.
69. A dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit.
72. State capital of New York.
73. A rapid bustling commotion.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
78. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
79. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
80. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
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1. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish.
4. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
7. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
8. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
9. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
10. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
11. Before noon.
12. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
13. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
14. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
19. Remove the claws from (a cat).
21. A bony fish of the subclass Teleostei.
24. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
26. Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions.
27. Someone in charge of other people.
29. Closed with a lace.
32. 1 species.
33. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
34. Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover.
35. A covered passageway.
39. A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum.
42. God of wealth and love.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
50. Formerly a gold coin of various European countries.
52. A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
57. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
59. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
60. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
62. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
63. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
66. Any competition.
67. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
68. Colored or impregnated with dye.
70. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
71. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
75. Being one more than one hundred.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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