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1. A lyric poet.
5. Newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant.
12. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Sea otters.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. Being three more than fifty.
19. Of or like a feeble old woman.
20. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
21. The state of being unsure of something.
23. Time during which some action is awaited.
24. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
25. Having no leaves.
29. A member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
36. A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease.
40. Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
42. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
43. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
44. A genus of Indriidae.
46. A city in the European part of Russia.
47. Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience.
50. The cry made by sheep.
51. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
52. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
53. Battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943).
56. An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members.
59. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
61. Scratch and scrimp.
64. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
66. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
67. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
68. Any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads.
73. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar.
75. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
76. (informal) Of the highest quality.
77. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
80. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
81. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
82. A great raja.
83. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
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1. With no effort to conceal.
2. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
3. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
4. A small quantity of liquid.
5. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
6. (Welsh myth) The other world.
7. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
8. United States poet (1885-1928).
9. United States playwright (1906-1963).
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. Material used to daub walls.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
13. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
14. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
22. A member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language.
26. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
28. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
30. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
31. Leap. jerk, bang (dialectal).
33. Type genus of the Amiidae.
34. Give a definition for the meaning of a word.
35. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
37. A sudden short attack.
38. The eleventh month of the civil year.
39. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
41. A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative.
45. A Loloish language.
48. French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700).
49. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
54. A general anesthetic (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly.
55. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
57. Preserve a dead body.
58. South American cavy.
60. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
62. A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object.
63. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
65. A white trivalent metallic element.
69. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
70. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
71. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
78. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
79. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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