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1. (British) Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit.
5. A function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set.
12. The unit of frequency.
15. An instinctive motive.
16. 1 species.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
20. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
22. Tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc.
25. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
28. Full of zest or vigor.
31. A small sc or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth).
34. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
37. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
40. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
44. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
45. Toward the mouth or oral region.
46. The basic unit of money in Honduras.
49. Being one more than one hundred.
50. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
51. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
54. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
55. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
57. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
62. Jordan's port.
67. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
71. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
73. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
75. An Asian river between China and Russia.
78. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
79. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
80. Drawn into the lungs.
81. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
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1. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
4. (used informally) Very small.
5. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. Humble request for help.
8. (British) The dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally).
9. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
10. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
11. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
12. Mix together different elements.
13. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
14. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
19. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
23. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
24. The season when the leaves fall from the trees.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
29. Wild ginger.
30. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
32. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
33. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
39. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
47. Being nine more than ninety.
48. On or toward the lee.
52. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
53. After noon.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity.
59. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
60. A Russian river.
61. United States baseball player.
63. God of love and erotic desire.
64. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
65. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. Channel into a new direction.
69. An unofficial association of people or groups.
70. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
72. A container.
74. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
76. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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