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1. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
5. A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz).
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. A feeling of intense anger.
16. Of or relating to or denoting numbers.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. (usually followed by `to') Strongly opposed.
20. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
21. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
22. (informal) Foolish.
23. Lower in esteem.
25. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
26. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
29. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
31. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
35. Large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly.
38. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
40. (Greek mythology) A sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
41. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
45. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
47. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
49. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
50. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
52. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
53. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
54. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
61. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
64. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
68. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
70. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
72. The cry made by sheep.
73. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
74. Characteristic of or resembling hell.
76. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
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1. Type genus of the Bramidae.
2. The overhang at the lower edge of a roof.
3. Eliminate from the body.
4. By chance.
5. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
6. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
7. Having a mental age of three to seven years.
8. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
9. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
10. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
11. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. By bad luck.
14. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
19. A room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun.
24. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
27. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
33. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
34. Capital of the state of Montana.
36. Talk pompously.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting.
42. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
43. The second day of the week.
46. A severe or trying experience.
48. Sour or bitter in taste.
51. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
55. Remove the clip from.
56. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
57. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
58. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
59. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
63. Chief port of Yemen.
65. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. A quantity that is added.
69. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. Black tropical American cuckoo.
75. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
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