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1. A French abbot.
5. Suitable for use as food.
12. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
15. A sudden short attack.
16. A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying).
17. How long something has existed.
18. In bed.
19. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
20. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
22. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
30. Bell attached to a sleigh, or to harness of horse pulling a sleigh.
34. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
38. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
39. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
41. Large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common.
42. Cheap and shoddy.
45. (Greek mythology) The last king of Troy.
46. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
47. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
52. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
53. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
55. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
56. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
58. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
65. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
75. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
76. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
77. Fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo.
79. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
80. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
81. A worker engaged in making steel.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A coffin along with its stand.
4. A doctor's degree in education.
5. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
6. Climbing salamanders.
7. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
8. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
9. Any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm).
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. American novelist (1909-1955).
14. A three-tone Chadic language.
21. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. A garment that covers the head and face.
26. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
29. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
31. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
32. A disinclination to work or exert yourself.
33. A city in northeastern New Jersey.
35. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
36. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
37. A large fleet.
40. A very troublesome child.
43. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
48. A member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India.
51. The capital of Western Samoa.
54. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
57. French classical painter (1780-1867).
59. Any high mountain.
61. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
63. Many times at short intervals.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
67. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
68. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
74. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
78. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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