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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
15. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
16. Relating to or being a palace.
17. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
18. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
19. 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).
20. In a gay manner.
22. Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813).
24. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
25. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
26. Goddess of fortune.
28. Being nine more than ninety.
30. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
31. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
37. Prolific Flemish baroque painter.
39. Short-nosed rat kangaroo.
41. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
44. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
45. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
49. Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A).
53. An early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses.
56. A telephone connection.
57. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
60. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
62. An authoritative person who divines the future.
63. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
67. A deep bow.
69. (informal) Roused to anger.
70. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
71. Hatred of marriage.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
75. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
76. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
2. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
3. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
4. Quick and energetic.
5. Type genus of the Canidae.
6. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
7. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
8. Type genus of the Otariidae.
9. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
12. The act of grasping.
13. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
14. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
21. Remote and separate physically or socially.
23. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
27. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
29. Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting.
32. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
34. Blatant or sensational promotion.
35. Land received by fee tail v 1.
36. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
38. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
40. A word or expression used for some particular thing.
42. A shoe for swimming.
43. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
46. The presence of a virus in the blood stream.
47. The front limb (or homologous structure in other animals such as a flipper or wing).
48. An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing.
50. Type genus of the Phocidae.
51. Headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather.
52. A Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy.
54. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
55. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York state.
58. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
59. Indigo bush.
61. A republic in eastern Africa.
64. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
68. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
72. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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