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1. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
4. Release from a clasp.
11. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
16. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
17. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
18. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
19. (medieval legends) The nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
20. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
21. Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow.
23. Used of persons and their behavior.
25. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
26. Small and delicate.
28. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
31. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
32. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
35. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
39. Any bird of the genus Pitta.
40. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
41. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
42. Periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division.
43. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
46. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
52. A woman sahib.
54. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
55. The amount a salary is increased.
57. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
58. A state in northwestern North America.
60. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
61. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
62. Moths whose larvae are corn borers.
66. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
67. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
70. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
71. Having a common axis.
74. A unit of pressure.
75. A short sleeveless undergarment for women.
77. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
78. Cut off from a whole.
79. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. A city in northern India.
3. The capital and largest city of Japan.
4. Innumerable but many.
5. Australian clover fern.
6. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
7. A driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip.
8. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
9. A pin used to hold the tie in place.
10. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
11. The wife of a sheik.
12. A tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers.
13. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
14. A notable achievement.
22. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
24. The decade from 1950 to 1959.
27. Presence of excess lipids in the blood.
29. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
33. Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638).
34. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
36. United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954).
37. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
38. British composer (1857-1934).
45. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
47. Slanderous defamation.
48. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
49. An antineoplastic drug used to treat certain malignancies.
51. A fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean.
53. Intravenous beta blocker (trade name Brevibloc) that acts for only a short time.
56. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
59. A city in central Japan on southern Honshu.
63. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
64. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
65. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. An informal term for a father.
72. The sign language used in the United States.
73. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
76. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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