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1. 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).
4. Increase in extent or intensity.
12. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
15. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
16. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene.
20. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. How long something has existed.
30. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547).
35. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
40. To modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo.
43. United States baseball player (born 1925).
44. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
45. A city of central Russia south of Moscow.
47. A large number or amount.
48. A genus of Percidae.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
53. The sixth month of the civil year.
54. A master's degree in business.
58. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
61. Greek god of light.
62. Mostly black African weaverbird.
64. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
68. English translator and Protestant martyr.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. Supply with battlements.
76. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
77. An advanced law degree.
78. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
80. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
81. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
82. The property characteristic of old age.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
2. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
3. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
4. Very dark black.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
7. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
8. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
9. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
10. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. Cover with drops, as with dew.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A castrated tomcat.
31. A city in northwestern Spain near the Cantabrian Mountains.
32. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
33. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
34. A city of central China.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
38. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
39. Of or in or relating to the nose.
41. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
42. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
46. A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes.
49. A large number of things or people considered together.
51. Sloth bears.
55. The cry made by sheep.
56. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
57. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
59. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
60. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
63. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
65. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
69. An Eskimo hut.
70. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
71. To run away.
74. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
75. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
79. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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