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1. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
4. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
12. Inquire about.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Lacking gonads.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
19. A region of central Spain.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
23. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
25. A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred).
27. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
29. A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
37. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
38. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
39. The doctrine or belief that there is no God.
42. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
43. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
44. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
47. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.
48. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
49. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
51. Used of a single unit or thing.
52. Of or relating to a canton.
55. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
58. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. Type genus of the Salmonidae.
67. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
70. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
71. United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953).
73. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
76. Clean or orderly.
77. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
78. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
3. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
4. Small East Indian shrubby mint.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies.
7. The number of which a given number is the logarithm.
8. Most important element.
9. Not in action or at work.
10. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. Derived by copying something else.
24. Russian Soviet leader.
26. Blood-sucking African fly.
28. A genus of Indriidae.
30. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
31. Not only so, but.
32. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
33. Lustrous gray.
34. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
40. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
41. Informal terms for a mother.
45. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
46. Before noon.
50. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
53. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
54. A slender double-reed instrument.
56. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
57. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
60. A board with the alphabet on it.
61. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
63. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
64. A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.
65. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
66. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
72. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
74. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
75. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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