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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. Brush turkeys.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. The bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps.
17. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
18. Someone who sleeps in any convenient place.
20. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
21. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Cattle that are reared for their milk.
28. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
30. Small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe.
35. A genus of Mustelidae.
36. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
39. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
41. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
42. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
44. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
45. Not asked for.
50. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
52. A military training exercise.
55. Of a surface.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
63. Slanderous defamation.
66. Flattery designed to gain favor.
68. Lend dignity or honor to.
72. Take in solid food.
73. Occurring or payable every year.
76. Austrian writer (1881-1942).
77. Being six more than fifty.
78. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
80. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
81. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
82. A great raja.
83. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Highly excited.
3. An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India.
4. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
5. (Irish) The sea personified.
6. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
7. Clear to the mind.
8. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
9. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
10. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
12. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
13. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
14. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
19. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
23. Not only so, but.
24. A city in northern India.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. The third month of the civil year.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. Of or relating to the spleen.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
34. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
37. Before noon.
38. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
40. Status with respect to the relations between people or groups.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. (meteorology) Of an air current or wind.
47. A Spanish title of respect for a man.
49. A Mid-Atlantic state.
51. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
54. A festival featuring African-American culture.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
58. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
65. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
68. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
71. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
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