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1. A byproduct of inflammation.
4. Having no leaves.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. Step on it.
16. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
20. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
21. Causing to become tranquil.
22. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
24. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
25. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
26. (Irish) The sea personified.
27. Suitable for use as food.
30. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
33. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
34. A slow pace of running.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Very steep.
42. A socially awkward or tactless act.
44. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
47. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
49. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
51. Of a quality, as in.
52. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
53. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
54. A negative.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. A resource.
58. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
61. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
62. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
64. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
68. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
71. Make uniform.
73. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
74. A large fleet.
76. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
78. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
79. United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and northwest (1813-1890).
82. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
83. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
84. A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Elegant and stylish.
2. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
3. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
4. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
5. Of or relating to the enteron.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
8. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
9. Oblong cream puff.
10. Short and blunt.
11. A white powder with a pleasant taste and odor.
12. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
13. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
14. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
19. The elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object.
23. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
28. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
29. The univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom.
31. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
32. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
35. Cause to ripen.
36. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
37. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.
40. Beyond what is natural.
41. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
43. Humble request for help.
45. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
46. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
48. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
50. Used of syllables.
57. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
59. Derive or receive pleasure from.
60. Wood of a sumac.
63. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
65. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
75. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
77. A unit of pressure.
80. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
81. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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