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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
12. Lacking in light.
15. Used of a single unit or thing.
16. A person holding a fief.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Not alert or attentive.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
23. A branch of the Tai languages.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
25. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
26. Type and only genus of the family Tytonidae.
27. A state in southeastern United States.
31. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
37. An honorary arts degree.
42. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
43. The cry made by sheep.
47. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
48. The supreme commander of a fleet.
51. Consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl.
54. Of female homosexuality.
55. A town in central Belgium.
56. Remove from memory or existence.
57. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
62. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
64. Left-hand page.
70. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system.
77. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
78. Being one more than two.
79. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
80. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
81. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
82. Skeleton shrimp.
83. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
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1. The state of being unsure of something.
2. Cause annoyance in.
3. An outstanding example of its kind.
4. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
5. The opening of a subject to public discussion and debate.
6. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. A state in the eastern United States.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
14. A master's degree in library science.
19. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
22. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
30. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
34. A city in southern Finland.
35. A stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors.
36. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
38. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
39. A resort city in western Florida.
40. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
41. Food chopped into small bits.
44. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
49. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
50. Using language effectively to please or persuade.
52. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
58. (baseball or softball) The person who does the pitching.
59. Absolve or pardon.
63. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
65. Armor plate that protects the chest.
66. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
67. A small tuft or lock.
68. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
69. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
71. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
72. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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