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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Having an upper part projecting beyond the lower.
12. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
15. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
16. A city in northwestern Mexico near the California border.
17. Goddess of fate.
18. Plants closely allied to the genera Satureja and Calamintha.
20. A woman of refinement.
21. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
22. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
23. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
24. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
26. Type genus of Cycadaceae.
28. A genus of Indriidae.
30. Impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission.
33. Sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae.
36. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
38. (Irish) The sea personified.
39. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
40. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
42. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
44. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
46. Common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers.
49. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
51. A small piece of cloth.
52. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
53. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
54. (Britain) Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea.
56. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
58. That is to say.
60. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
61. An associate degree in nursing.
62. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.
65. Drawn into the lungs.
68. A language of Australian aborigines.
71. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
72. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
75. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
76. Inflammation of the ear.
78. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
79. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
80. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
82. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
83. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
84. The father of your father or mother.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
2. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
3. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
4. Extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects.
5. A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas).
6. (combining form) Former.
7. Having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
10. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
11. Individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell.
12. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
13. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
19. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
25. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
27. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
31. The capital city of Vietnam.
32. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
34. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
35. A nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas.
37. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
48. Being one more than twelve.
50. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
55. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
57. A town of Denmark in north central Jutland.
59. Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
63. City in Sudan.
64. A distinctive emotional atmosphere.
66. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
67. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
69. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
70. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. God of love and erotic desire.
77. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
81. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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