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1. English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542).
5. Wish harm upon.
11. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
16. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
17. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
18. Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.
20. A loud resonant repeating noise.
21. A sudden rapid flow (as of water).
22. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
24. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
26. Spread or diffuse through.
28. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
29. Worshipper of Shiva.
32. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
35. (music) Brought to correct pitch.
37. Wasting time.
39. Goddess of fate.
41. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
44. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
45. A fragment of brick used as a weapon.
49. Get or find back.
52. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
53. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
54. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
61. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
64. Prong on a fork or pitchfork.
65. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
68. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
70. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
71. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
75. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
76. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
77. Discovered or determined by scientific observation.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A specific feeling of desire.
2. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
3. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
4. Late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease).
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
7. Extremely pleasant in a gentle way.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. Used at the dining table.
10. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
11. An imaginary monster used to frighten children.
12. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
14. Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967).
19. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
23. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
25. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
27. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
30. A victory cheer.
31. Produce a literary work.
33. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
34. Having or characterized by excessive moisture.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
40. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
42. A genus of Hirundinidae.
43. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
46. Of or like a cecum.
47. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
48. Impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission.
50. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
51. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
55. Of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus.
56. The feeling aroused by something strange and surprising.
60. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
66. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
67. God of love and erotic desire.
69. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
72. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
73. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
74. That is to say.
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