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1. A shape that sags.
4. Diffusing warmth and friendliness.
11. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. An accountant certified by the state.
16. In a courageous manner.
17. Relating to the Urdu language.
18. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
19. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
20. (British) A recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
24. Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters.
26. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
29. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
30. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
37. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
38. How long something has existed.
40. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
41. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
42. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. 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).
50. Before noon.
51. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
53. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
54. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
56. 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.
58. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
60. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
61. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
62. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
64. Of or relating to or involving an area.
67. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
70. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
74. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
76. Of or relating to a hair.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
80. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
81. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
83. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
84. The seed of the cereal grass.
85. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
86. Inquire about.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. Offering fun and gaiety.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975).
6. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
7. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
8. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
9. A three-year law degree.
10. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
11. Showing a brooding ill humor.
12. An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings.
13. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
14. Asiatic wild dog.
22. The sacred city of Lamaism.
25. By bad luck.
27. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
28. A Mid-Atlantic state.
31. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
32. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
33. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
34. An informal term for a father.
35. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
36. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
39. A homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
47. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
48. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
55. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
59. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
63. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
65. Neat and tidy.
66. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
68. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
69. A compact mass.
71. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
72. The 4th planet from the sun.
73. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
75. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
82. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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