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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. Display excessive cordiality (towards).
12. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
15. Gone by.
16. The craniometric point at the lowest point on the lower edge of the orbit.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. Free from liquid or moisture.
19. Typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects.
20. The money risked on a gamble.
21. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
23. The act of terminating a life.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
27. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
28. A state in east central United States.
30. One thousand grams.
33. An inhabitant of Lappland.
37. A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore.
41. To modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo.
44. A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle.
45. A married male American Indian.
46. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
48. A doctor's degree in education.
49. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
53. The fatty flesh of eel.
55. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
60. Evergreen tree of Pacific North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries.
63. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
68. A port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean.
71. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
72. (Irish) The sea personified.
73. A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).
75. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
76. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
77. A great raja.
78. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. A city in northern India.
3. Influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941).
4. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
5. Come into existence.
6. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
7. A Scottish church.
8. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
9. 1 species.
10. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
11. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
12. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. A city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.
24. A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane.
29. (of tempo) Very fast and lively adv.
31. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
32. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
34. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
35. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
36. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
38. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
39. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
40. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
42. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
43. The capital and largest city of Japan.
47. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
50. A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right.
51. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
52. Move unobtrusively or furtively.
54. Birch leaf miner.
56. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
59. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. In bed.
62. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
64. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
65. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
66. One thousandth of a second.
69. The cry made by sheep.
70. The month following March and preceding May.
74. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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