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1. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
5. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
16. Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
20. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
21. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
22. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
26. Plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials).
28. (anatomy) A layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure.
31. The fur of the North American racoon.
35. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
36. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
38. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
39. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
40. (British) A disparaging term for an appointee.
43. Emperor of Rome.
44. (British) A simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice.
45. By bad luck.
48. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
52. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
53. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
54. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
57. The vast grassy plains of northern Argentina.
61. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
65. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
69. Annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles.
73. A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women.
74. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
75. An uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived.
76. At or constituting a border or edge.
77. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
79. A notable achievement.
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1. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
2. An inhabitant of Lappland.
3. How long something has existed.
4. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
5. A human female who does housework.
6. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
7. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
8. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
9. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
10. Coextensive with the order Pholidota.
11. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
24. (thermodynamics) Conforming to the Carnot cycle.
25. A large fleet.
27. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
29. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.
30. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
32. Of or related to or derived from oats.
33. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
34. Offensive or even (of persons) malicious.
37. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
41. Filaments from a cobweb.
42. A town in southwestern Idaho.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. True cuttlefishes.
51. The square of a body of any size of type.
55. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
56. Humorously vulgar.
58. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
59. Having or joined by a seam or seams.
60. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
62. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
63. A pale or subdued color.
64. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
66. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
67. Pertaining to animals or animal life or action.
70. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
71. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
72. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
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