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1. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
4. Having only essential or minimal features.
12. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
15. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
16. By a chorus.
17. Towards the side away from the wind.
18. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
19. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
20. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
21. Capital of Swaziland.
23. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
24. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
26. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
27. A large and imposing house.
29. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
33. An artificial source of visible illumination.
37. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
42. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
48. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
50. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
52. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination).
58. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
62. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
64. The act of scanning.
65. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
69. Being in competition.
71. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
72. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
73. An abnormal condition in which a normal opening or tube in the body (as the urethra) is closed or absent.
76. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
77. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
78. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
79. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
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1. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
2. One of the common people.
3. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
4. A harsh noise made by scraping.
5. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
6. Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.
7. A strong emotion.
8. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
9. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
10. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
11. God of the sky.
12. Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
13. An incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right).
14. Not only so, but.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
28. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. (sports) Someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
32. A genus of Ploceidae.
34. Characterized by intense emotion.
35. A person of mean disposition.
36. Of a leaf shape.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. A decree that prohibits something.
40. Step on it.
41. Something that remunerates.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
46. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
49. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
51. Strike or tap firmly.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. Half the width of an em.
57. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
59. Type genus of the Ariidae.
60. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
61. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
63. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
66. The sixth month of the civil year.
67. Characteristic of false pride.
68. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
70. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
74. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
75. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
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