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1. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
4. Relating to minerals.
11. A communication system using fiber optic cables.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
17. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. A cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon.
20. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
21. An insane person.
23. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
25. United States impresario who was born in Russia (1888-1974).
27. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
29. Difficult to describe.
31. Shaped like a dish.
35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
37. Firmly fastened or secured against opening.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
44. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
46. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
47. Excessively fat.
48. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
51. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
53. A short personal letter.
54. A widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers.
59. Owning or consisting of land or real estate.
61. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
64. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
66. Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
72. The capital of Croatia.
74. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. Type genus of the Amiidae.
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
81. Full of zest or vigor.
82. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
83. A light touch or stroke.
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1. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
4. Of or infected by or resembling malaria.
5. Russian choreographer (1834-1905).
6. (British) Your grandmother.
7. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
8. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.
9. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
10. Having leadership guidance.
11. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.
12. Using speech rather than writing.
13. A three-tone Chadic language.
14. Containing or filled with salt.
22. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
24. A town in north central Oklahoma.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. In the Roman calendar.
30. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
32. English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905).
33. A liquid solution that results from elution.
34. Having gaps or spaces.
38. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
39. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
40. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
50. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
52. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
55. Very sad.
56. Pleated or tucked in lines radiating from a circular edge.
57. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
58. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. Type genus of the Canidae.
63. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
65. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. A blind god.
69. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
70. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
73. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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