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1. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. Something lost (especially money lost at gambling).
11. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. A South American republic on the southeast coast of South America.
17. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
18. Like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape).
20. Of or in or relating to the nose.
21. A skilled worker who coins or stamps money.
22. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
24. Fallow deer.
25. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide.
42. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
43. Any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway.
44. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
45. Cause to be bitter or resentful.
47. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
48. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. A blast of a horn.
53. Resembling gass.
55. A special way of doing something.
56. An island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa.
60. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
61. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
63. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
66. Marked by keen caution and watchful prudence.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
72. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
74. The organ that bears the ovules of a flower.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. A short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play.
80. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
81. Take in solid food.
82. Partial or complete loss of hearing.
83. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
2. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
3. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
4. A city in east central China.
5. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
6. A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste.
7. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
8. Lacking sensation.
9. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
10. An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean.
11. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
13. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
19. Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
29. Australian moundbird.
30. Diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight.
32. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
34. A port city in southwestern Iran.
35. Occurs in natural gas.
36. Reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
40. Resist or confront with resistance.
41. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
49. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
52. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
54. The act of storing something.
57. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
58. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
59. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
62. Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (424-401 BC).
64. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
65. Any of various small biting flies.
67. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
69. Set down according to a plan.
70. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
73. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
75. An affirmative.
79. A state in midwestern United States.
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