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1. Top part of an apron.
4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
17. A suburb of Paris.
18. Show a response or a reaction to something.
20. At any time.
21. Make anew.
22. A woman of refinement.
24. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
26. Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. Italian violinist (1782-1840).
33. A stringed instrument of India.
35. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928).
36. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
39. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
40. Fiddler crabs.
43. Preserve of crushed fruit.
44. An instance or single occasion for some event.
46. California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers.
48. Affect with wonder.
50. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. Used of the language of the deaf.
59. Unknown god.
60. A widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers.
64. Set down according to a plan.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797).
70. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
73. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
75. The state of being contaminated.
76. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
77. (Greek mythology) Winged goddess of victory.
78. Class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle.
80. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
81. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
82. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
3. A small nail.
4. The capital and largest city of Nepal.
5. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
6. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
7. Diuretic (trade name Edecrin) used to treat edema.
8. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
9. Used of a single unit or thing.
10. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
11. A person from whom you are descended.
12. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
13. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
14. A benign tumor composed of muscle tissue.
19. 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.
23. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
25. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
27. Having the properties of glue.
28. A bachelor's degree in science.
31. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
32. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
34. A Hindu prince or king in India.
37. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
38. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
45. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
47. A kiln used to reduce naturally occuring forms of calcium carbonate to lime.
49. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
54. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
55. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
57. Being nine more than forty.
58. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
61. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
62. Full of trivial conversation.
63. A long narrow excavation in the earth.
65. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
68. A town in north central Oklahoma.
69. A thrusting blow with a knife.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. God of love and erotic desire.
74. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
79. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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