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1. A formal association of people with similar interests.
5. Treacherously cowardly.
12. Inquire about.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
16. New World lizards.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A slight wind (usually refreshing).
20. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. The distance around a person's body.
34. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
38. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
42. How long something has existed.
43. Being seven more than fifty.
44. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
46. An associate degree in applied science.
50. A genus of tropical and subtropical Old World climbers or shrubs or trees.
54. Widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green.
56. Of or relating to the process of hearing.
57. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
60. Made tough by habitual exposure.
62. Tropical Asian starlings.
63. A lump on the body caused by a blow.
64. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
68. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
69. Become imbued.
73. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
74. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
76. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
77. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
78. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
79. Free from liquid or moisture.
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1. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
2. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
3. An inhabitant of Lappland.
4. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. A man who courts a woman.
8. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.
9. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
10. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
11. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
19. Not only so, but.
25. The cry made by sheep.
26. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
28. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
30. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
31. The amount a salary is increased.
32. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
33. Having leadership guidance.
35. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
36. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
37. A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep.
39. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
47. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
49. Consistent with fact or reality.
51. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
52. Appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime.
53. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
55. A town of Denmark in north central Jutland.
58. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
59. Make oneself subject to.
61. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
65. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
66. Report or maintain.
67. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
70. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
71. The chance to speak.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Being nine more than forty.
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