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1. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
5. Capable of being acted.
12. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
15. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
16. A monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Marplan) that is used to treat clinical depression.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
20. The state of being covered with unclean things.
22. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
23. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
24. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
26. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
28. A dress crepe.
30. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. The number of opening per inch of a screen.
44. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
46. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. Seed of a pea plant.
49. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
51. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
54. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
56. Deprive (infants) of mother's milk.
58. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
65. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
67. A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square.
70. An awkward stupid person.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
79. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
80. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
82. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
83. The fatty flesh of eel.
84. Existing as or having characteristics of a gas.
85. By bad luck.
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1. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
2. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
3. Not identified with a band.
4. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
5. Before noon.
6. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
7. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
8. Great coolness and composure under strain.
9. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
10. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
11. Half the width of an em.
12. Genus of African timber trees.
13. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
14. A language group of the Hokan family.
19. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
21. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
25. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
27. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
29. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
32. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa.
37. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
39. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
41. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
42. Big-eyed scad.
43. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
45. A large fleet.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
59. Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.
60. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
61. Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun.
63. Small very thin pancake.
66. Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game.
68. Using speech rather than writing.
69. A university in Connecticut.
71. The food served and eaten at one time.
72. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
77. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
78. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
81. 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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