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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
5. A decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing.
12. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
16. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
19. Someone who dwells in a cave.
20. A flexible container with a single opening.
21. A skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton.
23. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
25. Type genus of the Fregatidae.
28. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
29. A mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air.
32. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
39. A rapid bustling commotion.
43. A race between candidates for elective office.
48. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
49. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
50. A city in northwestern Mexico near the California border.
53. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
54. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
58. Informal terms for a mother.
60. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
62. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
67. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. A police officer who investigates crimes.
73. Any of several varieties of red-skinned apple.
75. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
77. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
78. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
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1. A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects.
2. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
3. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
4. The capital and largest city of Managua.
5. Leave voluntarily.
6. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
7. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
9. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
10. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
11. The longest division of geological time.
12. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
13. Taken or to be taken at random.
14. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
22. Situated at or extending to the side.
24. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
26. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
27. A Mid-Atlantic state.
30. A field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay.
31. A South American river.
33. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
34. Willing to face danger.
35. A periodic paperback publication.
36. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. Using speech rather than writing.
42. Either extremity of something that has length.
44. A soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation).
45. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
46. British informal term.
47. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
51. Take in solid food.
52. Make lighter or brighter.
55. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
56. Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree.
59. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
61. An inhabitant of Lappland.
63. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
64. The template for protein synthesis.
65. South African term for `boss'.
66. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
68. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
69. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
70. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
74. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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