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1. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. Having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity.
11. A Hindu prince or king in India.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Made less in size or amount or degree.
17. Make editorial changes (in a text).
18. A young woman making her debut into society.
19. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
20. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
21. Not only so, but.
23. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
25. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
26. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
28. Oblong cream puff.
30. Air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine.
35. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
36. The attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals.
41. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
43. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
44. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
46. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
48. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
49. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
50. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
52. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
54. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
55. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
57. Food for domestic livestock.
59. A master's degree in business.
62. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. Any high mountain.
71. A colt with undescended testicles.
74. Poor enough to need help from others.
75. (informal) Of the highest quality.
76. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
78. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
79. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
80. A great raja.
81. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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1. A polite name for any woman.
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
5. Adroitness and cleverness in reply.
6. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
7. (of language) Transparently clear.
8. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
9. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
10. A state in north central United States.
11. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
12. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
13. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
22. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
24. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
31. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
32. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
33. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
34. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
38. With rapid movements.
39. Machine tool for shaping metal or wood.
40. Lose blood from one's body.
42. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
45. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
47. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
51. Fire-bellied toads.
53. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
58. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
60. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
61. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
64. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
65. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
66. 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).
67. A city in southeastern South Korea.
68. In the Roman calendar.
69. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
72. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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