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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. The act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something).
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
16. Relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth.
17. Be obliged to pay or repay.
18. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
19. Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged.
20. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
22. A Swiss house.
24. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
25. Relating to or of the nature of a zone.
26. United States artist who was a leader of the pop art movement (1930-1987).
28. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
30. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
32. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
33. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
34. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
35. A change for the better as a result of correcting abuses.
38. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
42. Of or relating to a wedding.
43. Employed in accomplishing something.
46. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
48. An edict of the Russian tsar.
51. Jordan's port.
53. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
56. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
58. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
62. A large fleet.
64. Jordan's port.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. Cricket frogs.
70. Bringing death.
74. The content of cognition.
76. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
78. God of wealth and love.
80. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
81. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
82. Relating to or affecting the viscera.
84. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
85. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
86. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
3. Poor handwriting.
4. Beneath the surface of the sea.
5. The state capital of Western Australia.
6. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
7. Shaped like a ring.
8. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
9. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. Used of eyes lacking liveliness.
12. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
13. Utter obscenities or profanities.
14. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
21. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
23. (Scotland) A landowner.
27. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. 3rd largest island in the world.
36. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
37. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
39. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
40. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
41. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
44. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
54. A state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government).
55. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
57. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
60. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
69. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
71. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
72. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. Fallow deer.
77. (Irish) The sea personified.
79. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
83. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
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