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1. A very small circular shape.
4. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
12. Serving as an essential component.
15. A strong emotion.
16. A severe recurring vascular headache.
17. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
19. Provide with choice or abundant food or drink.
20. Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896).
21. A book of the New Testament.
23. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
25. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
26. Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
31. A state in midwestern United States.
32. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
35. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
42. Very sad.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
47. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
48. Leather with a napped surface.
50. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
51. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
53. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
55. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
59. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
61. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
62. A change from one state to the opposite state.
66. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
70. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
71. Sour or bitter in taste.
74. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.
75. A fraudulent business scheme.
77. In the Roman calendar.
78. God of love and erotic desire.
79. A deep bow.
80. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
3. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
4. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
5. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
6. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
7. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. Step on it.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. The brightest star in Cygnus.
12. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
13. At any time.
14. A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog).
22. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
24. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
27. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
29. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. One of the three sections of the hipbone.
34. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
36. An elaborate song for solo voice.
37. Wife of Balder.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
40. A state in the eastern United States.
41. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
43. A Nilotic language.
45. A desert in southern Israel.
49. One related on the mother's side.
52. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
54. Two items of the same kind.
56. Basic principles of the cosmos.
57. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
58. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
63. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
64. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
65. The sacred city of Lamaism.
67. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
68. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
69. Shout loudly and without restraint.
72. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
73. A unit of pressure.
76. A state in midwestern United States.
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