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1. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
5. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
16. United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882).
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
19. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
20. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. A town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River.
23. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
25. A river in eastern France.
26. Regularly spaced in time.
28. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. An audiotape recording of sound.
31. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
35. Make reference to.
40. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504).
44. Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse.
48. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
49. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
50. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
52. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
53. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
56. Leave a camp.
59. A warning against certain acts.
60. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
64. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
67. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
69. True firs.
72. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
73. A case for containing a set of articles.
74. Of or relating to anions.
76. A primeval personification of air and breath.
77. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
78. A poor white person in the southern US.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. A large number or amount.
4. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
5. Concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement.
6. Affect with wonder.
7. Remaining after all deductions.
8. Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes.
9. The Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people.
10. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
24. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
27. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
29. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
32. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
33. First in order of importance.
34. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
36. A piece of armor plate below the breastplate.
37. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
38. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. Not out.
45. A wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay.
46. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
47. A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder.
51. A colorless odorless gas used as a fuel.
54. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
55. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
57. Not reflecting light.
58. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
61. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
62. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
63. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
65. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
66. Make reference to.
68. Of or relating to near the ear.
70. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
71. The longest division of geological time.
75. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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