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1. A neutral middle vowel.
5. Avoiding waste.
12. (computer science) Protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network.
15. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
16. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
17. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
18. South African shrub having flat acuminate leaves and yellow flowers.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
21. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
23. (informal) Of the highest quality.
24. An active and efficient cause.
27. A deep pulsating type of pain.
29. Long tubular cell peculiar to xylem.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
33. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
36. Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column.
40. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
42. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
47. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Any activity that is easy to do.
51. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
52. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
54. A state in the western United States.
55. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
56. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
57. Not left to spoil.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
62. A bitter quarrel between two parties.
64. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
75. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
76. A motley assortment of things.
78. Become less tense.
79. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
80. Formative one-cell-thick layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth.
82. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
83. The residue that remains when something is burned.
84. (architecture) Lacking columns or pillars.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Small fatty European fish.
2. An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.
3. A man who courts a woman.
4. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
5. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
6. The basic unit of money in Spain.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. Disparaging terms for the common people.
9. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. Great brightness.
12. Tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc.
13. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
14. A major god.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
25. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
26. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
28. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
30. Evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides.
34. Transfer power to someone.
35. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
37. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
38. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
39. A province in north-central China.
41. Of or relating to the cochlea of the ear.
44. The longest river of Asia.
45. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
48. A state in midwestern United States.
50. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
53. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
58. Covered with scabs.
59. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
63. Indigo bush.
65. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
66. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
67. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
68. South African term for `boss'.
70. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
71. Largest known toad species.
73. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
74. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
77. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
81. A form of address for a man.
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