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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. Freed from any question of guilt.
12. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Not quite exact or correct.
17. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
18. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
19. Distant in either space or time.
20. One of the three Furies.
22. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
24. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
26. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
27. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
29. Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality.
31. A unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter.
32. Source of a tough elastic wood.
34. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
35. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
37. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
41. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
42. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
45. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
52. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
53. A person who eats human flesh.
57. An informal term for a father.
58. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
60. Having the slant of a bevel.
61. The eleventh month of the civil year.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
64. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
66. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
70. Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
79. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
80. A decree that prohibits something.
81. Anise trees.
83. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
84. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
85. A small dagger with a tapered blade.
86. 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. Material used to daub walls.
2. Of or being the lowest female voice.
3. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. An old Scottish coin of little value.
6. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
7. Capital of the state of Washington.
8. A long-playing phonograph record.
9. Cannon of plate armor protecting the forearm.
10. In a straight-backed manner.
11. 10 grams.
12. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
13. A genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae.
14. Order by virtue of superior authority.
21. Wool of the alpaca.
23. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.
28. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
30. Make an etching of.
33. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
39. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
40. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
48. Either extremity of something that has length.
50. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
51. A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.
54. A quantity of no importance.
55. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
59. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
62. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
65. 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.
67. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
68. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
69. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
71. A fabric made by knitting.
72. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
73. Type genus of the Anatidae.
74. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
77. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
78. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
82. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
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