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1. The noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash adv.
5. Shade within clear boundaries.
11. Rounded like an egg.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
17. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
18. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
19. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
21. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
23. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
25. The center of an object.
27. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
29. A manner of performance.
32. American educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939).
35. A large entrance or reception room or area.
37. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
38. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
39. King of the Huns.
42. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
43. A prolific German composer noted for his oratorios (1685-1759).
45. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
49. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
54. Small soft-furred South and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails.
57. A white powder with a pleasant taste and odor.
59. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
60. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
63. A genus of Ploceidae.
69. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
74. Jordan's port.
76. A decree that prohibits something.
77. Be about.
79. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
80. Inquire about.
81. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
2. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
5. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
6. A French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries.
7. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
8. Reduce in worth, character, etc..
9. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
12. A doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry.
13. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
14. Immediately past.
20. The capital and largest city of Idaho.
22. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
24. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
26. Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. The capital of Turkey.
31. An attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill).
33. A deep pulsating type of pain.
34. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines.
36. The location of something surrounded by other things.
40. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
41. By bad luck.
44. Having a hemispherical vault or dome.
47. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
55. An authoritative person who divines the future.
56. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
58. Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Jordan's port.
64. Type genus of the Anatidae.
65. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
66. A telephone connection.
67. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
68. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
72. A local computer network for communication between computers.
73. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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