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1. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. Relating to or near the shoulder blade n 1.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. A male human offspring.
16. Habitually reserved and uncommunicative.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.
20. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
22. Generally approved or compelling recognition.
24. Being one more than fifty.
26. English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937).
27. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
29. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
30. Perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area.
34. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
37. (neuroscience) Of or involving synapses.
38. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
39. A notable achievement.
42. Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical.
43. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
49. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
51. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
52. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
55. A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
61. At all times.
63. Not bringing death.
68. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Suitable for or suggestive of singing.
75. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
76. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
77. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
78. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
79. The fatty flesh of eel.
80. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. State in northeastern India.
2. Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria.
3. Order by virtue of superior authority.
4. A headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right.
5. English Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939).
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. Liquid excretory product.
8. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
9. A quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep.
10. A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft.
11. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
23. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
25. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
28. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
33. Common house and field crickets.
35. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
36. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
40. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
41. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
44. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. A way of regarding situations or topics etc..
50. A city on the Loire river in north central France.
54. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
57. The slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
60. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
62. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
64. A slender double-reed instrument.
65. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
66. Type and only genus of the family Tytonidae.
67. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
69. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
70. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
73. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
74. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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