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1. A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.
5. Someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
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. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
16. Type genus of the Sciaenidae.
17. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
18. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
20. A thermoplastic polyamide.
21. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. Affect with wonder.
27. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
29. A nation in northern North America.
32. Fiddler crabs.
33. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
37. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
41. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
42. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
47. With anxiety or apprehension.
50. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
51. Without much difficulty.
55. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
63. Apply incorrectly or badly.
68. Plants closely allied to the genera Satureja and Calamintha.
69. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
70. Wool of the alpaca.
73. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
74. Vietnamese New Year.
75. A Balkan republic in southeastern Europe.
77. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
78. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
79. Amino acid derived from tyrosine.
80. A male human offspring.
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1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. The act of using.
3. (British) Your grandmother.
4. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
5. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
6. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
7. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
8. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
9. Capital of the state of Montana.
10. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
11. An analgesic for mild pain.
12. Largest known toad species.
13. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
14. Soft creamy white cheese.
19. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
26. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.
28. A ray of sunlight.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. By bad luck.
34. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
35. A telegram sent abroad.
36. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
38. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
39. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
40. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
43. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
44. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
48. City in northeast Pakistan.
49. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
52. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
53. A genus of Mustelidae.
54. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
56. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
58. Having two feet.
60. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
61. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
62. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
64. Stalk of a moss capsule.
65. Relating to only part of a whole.
66. An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker.
67. God of the Underworld.
71. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
72. Black tropical American cuckoo.
76. Not out.
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