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1. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. A loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
20. A cycle with three wheels.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. A cloth having a crisscross design.
24. State in northeastern India.
26. Tag the base runner to get him out.
28. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
30. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
32. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
40. A white trivalent metallic element.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
42. Genus of tropical trees.
44. A pass between mountain peaks.
48. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
49. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
53. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
55. Worthy of adoration or reverence.
56. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. Set in advance.
59. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
61. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
62. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
63. Adorned by inlays.
67. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
70. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
73. One of two official languages of Norway.
76. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
79. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
80. Used of a single unit or thing.
81. Any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes.
83. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
84. A doctor's degree in education.
85. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
2. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
3. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. Obscene terms for feces.
6. The eleventh month of the civil year.
7. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
8. Capable of making an error.
9. A sudden short attack.
10. A kind of person.
11. Offering little or no hope.
12. By bad luck.
13. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
19. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
25. Used of the language of the deaf.
27. The cry made by sheep.
29. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
31. Large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere.
33. An honorary degree in science.
35. German chemist (1818-1892).
37. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
38. A monastery of friars.
39. A person works at lumbering and fells trees.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
46. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
47. (prefix) Within.
50. United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (born in 1935).
51. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
52. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
54. A machine for laying pavement.
60. Being one more than one hundred.
64. A thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle.
65. Squash bugs.
66. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
68. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
69. Advanced in years.
71. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
72. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
74. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
75. God of love and erotic desire.
77. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
78. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
82. An informal term for a father.
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