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1. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
4. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
12. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
15. Gone by.
16. Spread or diffuse through.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Someone who is an active supporter and advocate.
20. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
22. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
25. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
27. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
28. In operation or operational.
30. Made of fir or pine.
32. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
34. Signal going into an electronic system.
40. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
45. A usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.).
46. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
48. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
50. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
51. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
55. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
59. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
61. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
63. The basic unit of money in Finland.
67. Type genus of the Lepismatidae.
71. Submerged freshwater perennials.
74. A master's degree in business.
75. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
76. Serving during an intermediate interval of time.
78. A decree that prohibits something.
79. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
80. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An inhabitant of Lappland.
2. A city in northern India.
3. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
4. Morning glory.
5. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
6. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
7. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
8. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
12. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
14. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
19. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
21. A title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority.
23. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
26. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
29. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
31. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
36. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
37. Toward the mouth or oral region.
38. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
39. A deep prolonged loud noise.
41. The square of a body of any size of type.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
49. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
52. The residue that remains when something is burned.
57. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
60. The capital of Bahrain.
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
66. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. A long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic.
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