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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
5. American statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981).
16. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
17. An honorary law degree.
18. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
19. Unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure.
20. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
21. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. (informal) Very good.
25. God of death.
27. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
29. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
32. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
34. A state in midwestern United States.
35. Cut off the testicles.
37. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
40. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
46. Relating to people with good incomes.
51. Capable of being tamed.
52. (usually used colloquially) Causing or accompanied by misfortune.
53. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
54. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
56. A path set aside for walking.
57. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. The seventh and last day of the week.
60. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
63. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
66. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
68. A small hard fruit.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
71. Unable to move or resist motion.
73. A master's degree in business.
74. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
75. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
77. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. Made of fir or pine.
79. Remove the strap or straps from.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A persistently annoying person.
2. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
3. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
4. A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex.
5. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
6. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
7. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
8. A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people.
9. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
10. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
11. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
12. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
13. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
14. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. A prescription drug that is provided again.
28. Resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy.
30. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
31. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
33. Very dark black.
36. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
38. American novelist (1909-1955).
39. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
41. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
42. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
44. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
47. A person who eats human flesh.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
50. Outer membrane covering an axon.
55. A statement of fundamental facts or principles.
59. Dye with a color.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
65. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
67. Dearly loved.
70. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
72. The sound made by a gentle blow.
76. In operation or operational.
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