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1. Singing jazz.
5. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
12. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
15. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
16. Examine by palpation for medical purposes.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
20. Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405).
21. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
22. Heavy fabric that resembles velvet.
24. (optics) Having two foci.
26. A daughter of your brother or sister.
28. Avatar of Vishnu.
29. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
32. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
33. Ask for and get free.
36. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
37. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
44. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
48. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
51. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
52. City in Sudan.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
56. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
58. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
60. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
63. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
65. Any cone-shaped artifact.
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
68. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
72. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
73. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
76. An informal term for a father.
77. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
79. A master's degree in business.
80. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
81. Type and genus of the Isoetaceae and sole extant genus of the order Isoetales.
82. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Speaking a Slavic language.
2. The center of an object.
3. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
4. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
7. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
8. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
9. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
10. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
11. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
12. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
13. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
14. Little known Kamarupan languages.
19. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
23. A fraudulent business scheme.
25. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
27. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
30. United States film actor who appeared in many films with Katharine Hepburn (1900-1967).
31. The brightest star in Virgo.
34. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
35. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
38. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
40. Lower in esteem.
41. A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal.
43. A master's degree in library science.
45. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
47. With rapid movements.
49. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
50. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
54. An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.
55. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
57. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
59. (pathology) Tending to become more severe or wider in scope.
61. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
67. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
74. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
75. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
78. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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