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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp).
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. Type genus of Agaricaceae.
17. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
18. A light touch or stroke.
19. The term during which some position is held.
20. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
22. The sixth month of the civil year.
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. Large genus of evergreen lianas of tropical America.
31. A white trivalent metallic element.
33. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
34. Moving quickly and lightly.
35. A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle.
39. Having a coating.
41. Belonging to some prior time.
42. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
43. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
45. (grammar) Of or relating to the aorist tense.
47. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
50. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
51. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
53. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
54. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
56. Soviet physicist and dissident.
58. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
59. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
60. (informal) Of the highest quality.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. Divulge information or secrets.
68. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
70. A mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
78. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
79. Elder brother of Krishna.
81. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
82. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
83. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
5. American novelist (1909-1955).
6. The capital of Bahrain.
7. Chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching.
8. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
9. Water frozen in the solid state.
10. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
11. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
12. Soft creamy white cheese.
13. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
14. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
21. Noisy quarrel.
23. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
25. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
27. Chief port of Yemen.
29. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme.
30. American novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888).
32. Tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae.
36. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
37. A large and noisy party of people.
38. (Greek mythology) A mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.
40. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
44. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
46. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
48. A building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire.
49. Pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
71. A thrusting blow with a knife.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. God of love and erotic desire.
75. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
76. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
80. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
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