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1. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
4. Mental lethargy or dullness.
12. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
19. A native or inhabitant of Nubia.
20. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
25. African antelopes.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. Cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus).
35. A three-year law degree.
38. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
40. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
41. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
43. A deity or nymph of the woods.
46. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
47. Observe the stars.
50. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
52. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
53. Being of the age 13 through 19.
55. Half the width of an em.
56. An informal debt instrument.
57. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
60. An authoritative person who divines the future.
63. (Sumerian) Sun god.
65. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
69. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
76. British informal term.
77. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
78. A small private compartment for one on a sleeping car.
80. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
81. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
82. Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay.
83. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. A genus of Ploceidae.
2. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
3. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
4. American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress.
5. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
6. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
7. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
8. Creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil.
9. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
10. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
22. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
26. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
31. Cynipid gall wasps, chiefly affecting oaks.
32. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
33. Tropical African herbs.
34. A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass.
36. A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid.
37. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
39. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
42. Used especially in treating bruises.
44. Make anew.
45. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
49. A fit of shivering.
51. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
55. A doctor's degree in music.
62. A genus of Platalea.
71. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
75. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
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