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1. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
4. A salt or ester derived from silicic acid.
12. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. An engineering university in Cambridge.
16. Brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head.
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
20. Something causes misery or death.
21. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
23. A republic in southeastern Europe.
25. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
27. Fallow deer.
28. The basic unit of money in Mozambique.
29. A permanent council of the United Nations.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula.
38. A small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye.
41. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
44. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
45. A submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river.
48. Produce a literary work.
50. (chemistry) Relating to or containing an alkali.
51. Loss of the ability to swallow.
53. City in Sudan.
54. The center of an object.
56. In or of the present month.
57. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
59. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
61. A state in northwestern North America.
64. A person with a strong desire for something.
69. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
73. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
75. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
76. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
78. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
2. German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20-th century German literature (1875-1926).
3. The beginning of anything.
4. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
5. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
6. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
7. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
8. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
9. A short synopsis.
10. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
11. Either extremity of something that has length.
12. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
22. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
26. Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery).
31. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
32. English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799).
33. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.
35. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
36. A form of Japanese poetry.
37. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
39. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
40. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.
42. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
43. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
46. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
47. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
49. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
52. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
55. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
58. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
60. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
62. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
63. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
65. A Loloish language.
66. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
67. Very dark black.
68. Not widely known.
70. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
74. A form of address for a man.
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