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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. Mites and ticks.
11. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
15. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
16. An analgesic for mild pain.
17. A Loloish language.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. A portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play.
20. Very dark black.
21. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
23. Intermediate between peat and bituminous coal.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
27. A Russian river.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
35. Jordan's port.
37. A master's degree in business.
39. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
40. Wood of a sumac.
42. Notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex.
45. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
46. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
48. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
53. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
55. Someone who operates an aircraft.
57. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
60. Make more dynamic.
62. A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah.
64. (chemistry) Of or containing mercury.
68. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
69. A postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory.
72. A city of central China.
73. A transuranic element.
74. A member of the North American Indian people of the Pit river valley in northern California.
76. The basic unit of money in Romania.
77. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
78. Type genus of the Parmeliaceae.
79. Take in solid food.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. Singing jazz.
4. Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
7. A column of light (as from a beacon).
8. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
9. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
10. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets.
11. Any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds.
12. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
13. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
14. Have supper.
22. Jordan's port.
24. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
28. Well matched.
29. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
31. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
32. An ancient town on a promontory in western Greece.
33. An earth color containing ferric oxides.
34. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
36. Strong and sharp.
38. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
41. An exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest.
43. The act of putting something in working order again.
44. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Geastraceae.
47. Thin-shelled freshwater mussels.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. The force of workers available.
54. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
56. A volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples.
58. A state in New England.
59. A genus of Indriidae.
61. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
63. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
65. Cause annoyance in.
66. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
67. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
70. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
71. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
75. A midwestern state in north central United States.
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