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1. The last (12th) month of the year.
4. Marked by great carelessness.
12. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
15. Water frozen in the solid state.
16. A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
17. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
18. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
20. Not divisible by two.
21. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
23. COmmon Business Oriented Language.
25. Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.
27. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
28. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
35. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
38. A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes.
42. Perform on a stage or theater.
44. Coat a metal with an oxide coat.
45. The basic unit of money in Romania.
46. Capital of modern Macedonia.
48. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
49. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
58. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
62. Extremely poisonous or injurious.
67. Equipped with long sharp-pointed projections especially along the top of a wall or fence.
68. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. The younger of two major political parties in the United States.
72. A plastic containing resins.
75. A decree that prohibits something.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
2. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
3. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
4. The skin that covers the top of the head.
5. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. The person initiating a telephone call.
8. A doctor's degree in education.
9. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
10. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
12. The sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing a developing bud.
13. In the Roman calendar.
14. Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material.
19. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
22. Having winglike extensions.
24. One of the three Furies.
26. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
30. Soft blue-gray mineral.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum.
34. Make uniform.
36. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
37. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
39. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
40. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
41. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
43. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
47. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
50. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
52. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
53. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
55. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods.
56. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
57. Staying temporarily.
59. Jordan's port.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. Very dark black.
64. Type genus of the Nepidae.
65. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
66. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
69. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
73. A state in southeastern United States.
74. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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