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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
12. Situated at the top or highest position.
15. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
16. Consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl.
17. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
18. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
20. A woman of refinement.
22. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
23. Half the width of an em.
24. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
25. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
26. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
29. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
31. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
34. 16 ounces.
35. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. Austrian writer (1881-1942).
40. Having the head uncovered.
44. A young woman making her debut into society.
46. A song that was formerly popular.
48. Offering fun and gaiety.
49. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
52. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.
53. A flexible container with a single opening.
54. Informal terms for a mother.
55. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
56. Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control.
58. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
61. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
62. A Mid-Atlantic state.
63. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
67. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
70. Organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell that is composed of ribonucleic acid.
75. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.
77. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
78. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
79. Any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8.
82. Being one more than two.
83. The force of workers available.
84. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
85. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
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1. United States chemist (1839-1903).
2. With rapid movements.
3. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. The highest level or degree attainable.
7. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
8. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
9. The act of rising upward into the air.
10. (trademark) An antacid.
11. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
12. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
13. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
14. (India) Absolutely first class and genuine.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. A motley assortment of things.
27. Jordan's port.
28. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
30. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
32. Absent without permission.
33. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
36. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
38. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
39. In an idle manner.
41. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
42. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
43. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
45. At or constituting a border or edge.
47. Divisible by two.
50. Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness.
51. Emperor of Rome.
57. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter.
59. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
60. A state in midwestern United States.
64. A rotating power drill powered by an electric motor.
65. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
66. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
68. Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material.
69. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
71. An unofficial association of people or groups.
72. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
73. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
74. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
76. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
80. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
81. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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