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1. Stalk of a moss capsule.
5. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
16. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
17. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
18. Capital and largest city of Italy.
19. A container.
20. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
22. An act that exploits or victimizes someone.
24. Immediately past.
26. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
27. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
29. Two-winged flies especially the housefly.
31. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
32. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
33. A rapid bustling commotion.
36. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
37. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
38. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.
42. King of Scotland (died in 1057).
45. A bachelor's degree in theology.
47. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
48. New World chats.
49. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
52. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
53. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
54. Loss of the ability to swallow.
56. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
60. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
61. The basic unit of money in Romania.
63. The fifth day of the week.
64. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
66. A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
69. An iconic mental representation.
74. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
75. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
77. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
78. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
79. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
81. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
82. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
83. A great raja.
84. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Of inferior or mixed breed.
2. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.
3. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
4. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
5. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
6. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
7. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
8. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
9. Any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World.
10. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
13. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
14. Be in accord.
21. Slightly salty.
23. An elderly man.
25. Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities.
28. French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397).
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. Russian country house.
35. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
39. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
40. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
41. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
43. As the agent of or on someone's part.
44. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
46. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
50. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
51. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
55. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
57. Make formless.
58. The apical end of the style where pollen is deposited.
59. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
62. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
65. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
67. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
68. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
70. An elaborate song for solo voice.
71. English monk and scholar (672-735).
72. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
76. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
80. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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