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1. The act of catching an object with the hands.
5. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
12. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
15. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
16. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
17. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
18. A city in northern India.
19. A city in northeastern Ohio.
20. A Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania.
22. Childcare during the day while parents work.
24. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
25. Someone who bakes commercially.
26. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
27. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
29. The academic world.
31. A republic in eastern Africa.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
35. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
36. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
38. A sudden short attack.
42. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
44. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
47. A city in southern Finland.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
52. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
54. A radical labor movement in the United States founded in nd dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism.
55. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
56. Top part of an apron.
57. A French abbot.
59. A city and port in northern Jutland.
62. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
64. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
65. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
66. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
68. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
70. Living quarters at a college or university where students live.
73. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
76. The month following July and preceding September.
80. A strong emotion.
81. Army unit smaller than a division v 1.
83. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
84. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
85. A disorder of the glands of the body.
86. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. A vigil before certain feasts (as e.g. Easter).
4. (informal) Very good.
5. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
6. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
7. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
8. On, to, or at the top.
9. Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.
10. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
11. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
12. English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika.
13. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
14. A shape that spreads outward.
21. Waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. Submerged freshwater perennials.
37. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
39. The capital of Western Samoa.
40. A resident of Iowa.
41. Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod.
43. Furnished or strengthened with ribs.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
50. French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became known as the New Look (1905-1957).
51. (used of texts) Shortened by condensing or rewriting.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. God of wealth and love.
60. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
61. Christian martyr.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
67. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
69. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
71. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
72. A written proposal or reminder.
74. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
75. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
77. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
78. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
79. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
82. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
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