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1. Select as an alternative.
4. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
11. 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.
15. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. A town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island west of Vancouver.
17. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. A list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start.
20. Tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood.
21. Grant credentials to.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake.
24. Characteristic of maturity.
25. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
27. Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
35. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
38. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan.
40. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
43. A human limb.
44. A Loloish language.
47. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
48. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
53. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Ansaid) that is administered only orally.
56. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
58. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
60. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
69. Of or relating to a creed.
71. Lacking strength or vigor.
74. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
75. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
76. The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death).
78. Used of a single unit or thing.
79. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
80. A person whose head is bald.
81. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Type genus of the Phocidae.
3. Dye with a color.
4. Expressive of contempt.
5. Having or involving the use of hands.
6. The basic unit of money in Peru.
7. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
8. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
9. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
10. The largest city of Cameroon.
11. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
12. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
13. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
14. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
19. Elected Vice President in Roosevelt's 4th term.
26. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
28. Any thick messy substance.
30. A public square with room for pedestrians.
31. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
33. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
34. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
39. A state in midwestern United States.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Ground snakes.
45. Worthy of religious veneration.
46. American novelist (1909-1955).
49. Widely known and esteemed.
51. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
54. Being nine more than ninety.
55. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
57. A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis.
59. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
61. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
62. A group of southern Bantu languages.
63. Fed beyond capacity or desire.
65. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
66. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
68. An informal conversation.
70. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
72. Of southern Europe.
73. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
77. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
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