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1. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
4. Effusively or insincerely emotional.
12. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
15. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
17. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
18. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
19. English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905).
20. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
25. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
27. English essayist (1775-1834).
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
32. A wine bottle made of leather.
36. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
40. An act of gracious kindness.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. In a terrible manner.
46. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
47. A shop where loans are made with personal property as security.
49. With eagerness.
52. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
53. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
54. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
55. A resident of Kansas.
57. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
59. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
60. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. By bad luck.
66. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
68. In or relating to the duodenum.
73. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
74. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
76. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
77. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
79. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
80. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
81. A large fleet.
82. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
3. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
4. Cut the head of.
5. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
6. Being one more than two.
7. (formal) A person who announces important news.
8. A genus of Scolopacidae.
9. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
12. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
13. A compact mass.
14. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
21. Jordan's port.
23. Consisting of or made of cedar.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
33. Do something to an excessive degree.
34. United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967).
35. A sock knitted or woven with a diamond-shaped pattern.
37. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
38. The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors.
39. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
43. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
44. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
45. Noisy talk.
48. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
50. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
51. (Greek) A benevolent spirit.
56. East Indian annual erect herb.
58. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
62. Subject to a ruling authority.
63. A bachelor's degree in religion.
65. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
67. A person who makes use of a thing.
69. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
70. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
71. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. A Loloish language.
75. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
78. A state in the eastern United States.
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