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1. A group of countries in special alliance.
5. A loss of will power.
12. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
15. A genus of Mustelidae.
16. The father of your father or mother.
17. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
18. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
19. Relating to or associated with or comprising a convolution of the brain.
20. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
22. Rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
28. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
31. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
34. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
35. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
38. Being connected or associated.
40. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
45. Obsolete terms for legal insanity.
47. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
50. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
51. A quantity of no importance.
52. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
53. Of or relating to the state of marriage.
55. The Creator.
57. The capital of Morocco.
60. Most important element.
63. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. Gracefully slender.
71. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
72. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
73. The state capital of South Australia.
75. A unit of pressure.
76. The basic unit of money in Albania.
77. A great raja.
78. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
2. A characteristic state or mode of living.
3. Using speech rather than writing.
4. A bottle with a stopper.
5. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
6. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
7. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
8. (usually followed by `to') Not having the necessary means or skill or know-how.
9. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
12. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
13. Soft creamy white cheese.
14. That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings.
21. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
23. Offering fun and gaiety.
24. Mentally healthy.
26. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
27. Capable of wounding.
29. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
30. A person who gains weight.
32. A flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse.
33. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
36. United States space station.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal.
41. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Cataflam).
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
54. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
56. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
58. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
59. A genus of bee.
61. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
62. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
64. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
65. Rounded like an egg.
66. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
67. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
70. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
74. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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