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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. (15th-16th century) A flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches.
12. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Or family Polypodiaceae.
17. Being two more than fifty.
18. The ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings.
20. A sudden rapid flow (as of water).
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
22. The act of washing yourself (or another person).
23. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
25. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
26. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Serving to set in motion.
32. Tropical Atlantic fish.
37. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
38. A fastener for a door or lid.
42. God of death.
43. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
45. Rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants.
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
48. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
50. Not functioning properly.
51. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
53. A telegram sent abroad.
56. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
57. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
59. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
66. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
73. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
75. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
76. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
77. Of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.
80. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
81. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
82. A genus of evergreen climbers.
83. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
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1. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
2. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
3. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
4. The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
5. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
6. A visual presentation showing how something works.
7. A heathen (especially a Muslim).
8. Not out.
9. With the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge.
10. A disputant who advocates reform.
11. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
12. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
13. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
14. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
19. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
28. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
30. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
33. Closed with a lace.
34. Causing fear or dread or terror.
35. Extremely pleasing.
36. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
39. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
40. A plant fiber used for making rope.
41. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
49. Any of various units of capacity.
52. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
54. Situated at or extending to the side.
55. New Guinea echidnas.
58. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
60. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
69. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
70. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
71. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
72. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
74. Being six more than fifty.
78. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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