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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Reading superficially or at random.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
16. (grammar) Of or relating to the aorist tense.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832).
20. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
22. Disposed to please.
24. Being nine more than forty.
26. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
27. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
34. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
38. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale).
43. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
45. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
46. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
47. So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe.
49. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
50. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
52. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
54. Being of the age 13 through 19.
57. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
59. Lean end of the neck.
61. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
62. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
64. The sixth month of the civil year.
67. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
70. Toward the mouth or oral region.
74. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
75. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
76. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
77. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
80. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
81. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
82. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
83. Liquid excretory product.
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1. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
7. Hairpiece covering the head and made of human or synthetic hair.
8. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
9. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
10. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. Praise, glorify, or honor.
32. Flat tableland with steep edges.
33. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
35. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
36. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
37. Having removed clothing.
39. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
40. Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656).
41. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
48. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters.
53. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
58. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
60. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
63. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
65. Dearly loved.
66. In bed.
68. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
69. Taking place over public roads.
71. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
72. A French abbot.
73. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
78. Informal terms for a mother.
79. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
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