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1. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
4. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
12. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
20. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
21. An operating system that is on a disk.
22. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
23. A light touch or stroke.
25. Emperor of Rome who was proclaimed emperor against his will.
27. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
29. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
32. A polite name for any woman.
33. A state in north central United States.
35. 16 ounces.
36. Relating to or affected by ischemia.
38. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
41. A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water.
44. (Sumerian) Sun god.
45. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
49. Type genus of the Musaceae.
51. Mites and ticks.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
55. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
56. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
57. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
60. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
62. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
64. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
65. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
66. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
68. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
76. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
79. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
82. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
83. A bachelor's degree in theology.
84. An employee of a railroad.
85. (informal) Roused to anger.
86. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
87. State something incorrectly.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. Tall tender clumping bamboos.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
9. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Relating to or included in the zodiac.
13. Using the voice.
14. Resembling gass.
19. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
24. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
26. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
28. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
30. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
34. Thorn apple.
37. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
39. A member of the North American Indian people of Oregon.
40. Desire strongly or persistently.
42. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
43. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
47. Aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning.
50. Jordan's port.
52. A genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
58. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
59. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
67. A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization.
69. A river in eastern France.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
73. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
74. Type genus of the Anatidae.
75. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
77. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
78. An informal term for a father.
80. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
81. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
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