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1. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
4. Stout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings.
11. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
15. An accountant certified by the state.
16. A battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512.
17. A musical work that has been created.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Whale lice.
20. Any plant of the genus Erica.
21. God of wealth and love.
23. One of the common people.
25. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
27. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
29. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
30. Any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers.
34. The number of which a given number is the logarithm.
36. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
38. Raise in a relief.
41. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
42. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
45. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
46. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
51. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
52. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
53. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
56. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
59. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
60. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
64. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
65. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
74. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
75. Type genus of the Odobenidae.
78. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
79. Befitting a woman of good breeding.
80. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
4. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
5. A column of light (as from a beacon).
6. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
7. An analgesic for mild pain.
8. Used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function.
9. Small air-breathing arthropod.
10. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
11. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
12. The capital of Western Samoa.
13. A nitrogenous substance found in mucous secretions.
14. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
22. Make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle.
24. Soft creamy white cheese.
26. English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905).
28. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
31. The number of lines in a piece of printed material.
32. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
33. Having the slant of a bevel.
35. (Old Testament) An ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. A Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir.
40. Very large white gannet with black wing tips.
43. A periodic paperback publication.
44. A major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river.
47. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
48. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
49. The face of a timepiece.
50. Necessary foods or commodities.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
57. A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery.
58. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
61. In bed.
62. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
63. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
66. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
67. A slender double-reed instrument.
70. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
71. Black tropical American cuckoo.
72. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
76. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
77. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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