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1. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
5. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
16. Correction by erasing.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
19. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
22. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
24. A hiding place.
26. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A French river.
32. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
34. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
38. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
39. (of words) Formed in imitation of a natural sound.
43. An ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind.
47. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
50. Select as an alternative.
51. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
53. An onerous or difficult concern.
55. A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.
59. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
61. Large American feline resembling a lion.
62. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
64. Especially a long, formal letter.
67. Of or relating to alleles.
71. An infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism.
73. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
74. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
79. An exchange of ideas via conversation.
80. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
81. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
2. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
3. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.
4. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
5. A young woman making her debut into society.
6. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
7. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
8. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
9. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. (Judaism) The ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover.
12. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
21. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
23. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614).
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
30. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
31. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. English poet and literary critic (1822-1888).
36. A small hairpiece to cover partial baldness.
37. An insect or other arthropod between molts.
40. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
41. In operation or operational.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Anything that serves as an enticement.
45. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
46. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
48. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
49. (Babylonian) The sky god.
52. Extent downward or backward or inward.
54. Treated with oil.
56. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
57. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
58. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
60. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
63. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
65. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
66. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
69. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
70. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
72. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
76. A state in midwestern United States.
77. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
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