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1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. A white mineral.
12. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
15. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
16. An orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing.
17. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
18. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy.
20. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
25. Compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming.
27. The dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess.
28. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
29. Lower in esteem.
33. The capital of Croatia.
36. A Hindu prince or king in India.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. Type genus of the Anatidae.
43. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. 1/10 gram.
46. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
47. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
50. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
53. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
55. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
57. A female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions.
60. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia.
64. The act of scanning.
67. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
69. With a forward motion.
70. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
71. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
73. Parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates.
75. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
77. Enthusiastic approval.
79. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
80. God of fire.
81. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
82. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. (physical chemistry) A distinct state of matter in a system.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. Slanderous defamation.
4. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
5. 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.
6. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
7. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
8. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
9. Be iridescent.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. Razor clams.
12. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
13. Dwell (archaic).
14. Wearing or provided with clothing.
21. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
23. A promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books).
26. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
30. Very steep.
31. A genus of Platalea.
32. (botany) Especially of leaves.
34. Come into existence.
35. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
37. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. The capital of Nationalist China.
41. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
48. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
49. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
54. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
56. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
58. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
59. An extended area of land.
61. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
62. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
63. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
65. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
66. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
68. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. Being one more than two.
76. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
78. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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