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1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
4. Used to make malmsey wine.
12. Standard temperature and pressure.
15. Seed of a pea plant.
16. Gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.
17. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. A member of the Texas state highway patrol.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. (archaic) Relying on medical quackery.
27. Leaking out slowly.
30. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
31. Outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921).
34. A particular environment or walk of life.
36. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
38. British informal term.
39. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
43. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
44. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
47. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
48. A unit of pressure.
50. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
51. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
53. A headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
61. On or toward the lee.
65. A woman of refinement.
67. Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786).
69. A worker who installs and repairs electric wiring.
73. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
78. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia.
80. Having leadership guidance.
81. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
82. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
83. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
7. Someone who eats no animal products at all.
8. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
9. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
10. That is to say.
11. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances).
12. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
13. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
14. Cultivated in temperate regions.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).
26. One thousandth of a second.
28. A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force.
29. A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge.
32. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
33. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. A state in midwestern United States.
40. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
41. Be in contradiction with.
42. With rapid movements.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. The cry made by sheep.
49. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
52. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
54. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
55. The highest level or degree attainable.
56. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
59. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
60. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
62. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
63. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
64. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
66. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
68. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
70. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
71. In bed.
72. A quantity of no importance.
74. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
75. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
79. A form of address for a man.
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