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1. Divulge information or secrets.
5. A person who shirks their work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime).
12. The month following August and preceding October.
15. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
16. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas.
17. Of inferior or mixed breed.
18. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. Located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
22. A soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes.
24. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
25. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
28. A genus of Pyralidae.
29. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
31. Less than human or not worthy of a human being.
34. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
36. (trademark) An antacid.
40. Jordan's port.
45. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
46. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
47. Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food.
49. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
50. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
51. Late time of life.
53. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. An awkward stupid person.
58. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
62. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
65. Greek mythology.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. The levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa).
73. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
74. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
75. Bubble shells.
76. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
77. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
78. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
4. As the agent of or on someone's part.
5. (Chinese and Japanese) Treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body.
6. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
7. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
8. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
9. Strike sharply.
10. A genus of Mustelidae.
11. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
12. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
13. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
14. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
30. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
32. An instinctive motive.
33. English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935).
35. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
37. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
38. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
39. A native-born Israeli.
41. A city in northwestern Syria.
42. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
43. A person of unquestioning obedience.
44. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
48. Relatively small tuna with choice white flesh.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
55. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
59. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
60. Noisy talk.
61. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
63. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
64. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
66. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
67. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
68. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
71. Rate of revolution of a motor.
72. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
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