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1. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
4. A form of solitaire that involves gambling.
12. Goddess of fate.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Draw more money from than is available.
17. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
18. A male character in French pantomime.
20. A river in Germany.
22. The audible part of a transmitted signal.
23. A branch of the Tai languages.
26. Escape, either physically or mentally.
27. The branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light.
28. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. Wood of any of various alder trees.
35. A South African movie theater.
40. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
41. Liquid excretory product.
42. Language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines.
44. Mentally healthy.
45. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
46. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
47. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
50. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
52. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
56. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
58. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
61. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
63. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
64. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
65. The sixth month of the civil year.
69. A branch of the Tai languages.
72. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
73. Turn sharply.
74. Edible viscera of a butchered animal.
76. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
77. Posing no difficulty.
78. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
79. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
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1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
3. Any system of principles or beliefs.
4. French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875).
5. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
6. A commercial browser.
7. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
8. Not in action or at work.
9. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. A local computer network for communication between computers.
11. A person of unquestioning obedience.
12. Capital of modern Macedonia.
13. Having been read.
14. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
19. A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).
21. A photograph taken at close range.
24. In a state of sleep.
25. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
33. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
34. A selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade name Prozac).
36. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
37. Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
43. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
48. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
53. Having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap.
54. Somewhat flattened cylindrical squid.
55. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
57. (South African) An ear of corn.
59. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
60. A person who is abnormally small.
62. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
66. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
70. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
71. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
75. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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