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1. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
4. An interpreter and guide in the Near East.
12. A slight amount or degree of difference.
15. Not in good physical or mental health.
16. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
17. Fiddler crabs.
18. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
20. Taken off or taken away from a total.
22. Relating or near the pubis.
24. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
25. A genus of Paridae.
29. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
32. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
37. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
38. A town in north central Oklahoma.
40. German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811).
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
46. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. A heap of dung or refuse.
50. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
52. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
53. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
61. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
65. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
66. The cry made by sheep.
67. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
70. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases.
71. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
72. (Teutonic and Norse mythology) A Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelungenlied who loved the hero Siegfried.
75. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
76. Take in solid food.
77. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A small tuft or lock.
2. Cheese containing a blue mold.
3. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
4. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
5. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
8. A song that was formerly popular.
9. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
10. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
11. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
12. South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931).
13. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
14. An informal term for a father.
19. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
21. For which money has been paid.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. In bed.
27. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
28. Light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars.
30. A vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song).
31. Press or grind with a crunching noise.
33. A city in northeastern Ohio.
34. An African river.
35. A river in southeastern France.
36. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. Being nine more than ninety.
42. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
43. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
45. Jordan's port.
49. Italian operatic composer noted for the dramatic realism of his operas (1858-1924).
51. An active and efficient cause.
54. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
55. Half the width of an em.
56. A headlike protuberance on an organ or structure.
57. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
58. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
62. Avatar of Vishnu.
63. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
64. A desert in central Asia.
68. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
69. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
73. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
74. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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