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1. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).
5. Supergiant star 650 light years from Earth.
12. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
15. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
16. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
17. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
18. Great coolness and composure under strain.
19. Liveliness and eagerness.
21. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
24. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
25. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
27. Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity.
28. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
29. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
33. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
36. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
40. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
41. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. A French abbot.
46. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative.
48. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
49. (Irish) The sea personified.
50. A woman's sleeveless undergarment.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. Of or relating to or involving an area.
55. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
58. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
60. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
66. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
74. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
78. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
79. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
80. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. Cause to adhere.
2. The topmost one of two.
3. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
4. Type genus of the family Pholadidae.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
8. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
9. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
10. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
11. An enclosed space.
12. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
13. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
14. Common Indian weaverbird.
20. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A genus of Ploceidae.
26. An informal term for a father.
30. Someone who walks at a leisurely pace.
31. Of or relating to Fabianism.
32. Come out into view, as from concealment.
34. A material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses.
35. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
37. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
38. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
43. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
47. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier.
51. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
53. Type genus of the Percidae.
56. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
61. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
62. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
64. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
65. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
69. A town in north central Oklahoma.
71. Of southern Europe.
72. An accountant certified by the state.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Being nine more than ninety.
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