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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Having or being distinguished by diminutive size.
12. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. A man who serves as a sailor.
20. The liquid part that can be extracted from fruits and vegetables.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. A sock knitted or woven with a diamond-shaped pattern.
24. An honorary degree in science.
25. Music composed for dancing the conga.
27. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
29. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
31. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
33. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
37. A festival featuring African-American culture.
40. Half the width of an em.
43. Flat tableland with steep edges.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
48. A sudden short attack.
50. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
51. Being six more than fifty.
54. The process of exposing to air (so as to purify).
58. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
61. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
62. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
65. Type genus of the Ranidae.
68. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
72. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
75. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
76. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
77. So unexpected as to have not been imagined.
80. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
81. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
82. A conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic "Reynard the Fox".
83. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
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1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
2. A European river.
3. God of wealth and love.
4. An ordered reference standard.
5. French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883).
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. 36th President of the United States.
8. Praise, glorify, or honor.
9. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
10. An enclosed space.
11. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
12. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
13. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
14. God of death.
19. An ancient city is southern Greece.
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. Of or relating to or measured in ohms.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
32. The act of turning aside suddenly.
34. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
35. Periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division.
36. Feel admiration for.
38. Out of bed.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
42. Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
45. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
47. Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger.
49. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
53. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
56. A state in midwestern United States.
57. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
79. A doctor's degree in religion.
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