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1. Distant in either space or time.
5. Light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars.
11. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
17. By bad luck.
18. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
19. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
20. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
21. A loud harsh or strident noise.
23. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
25. The residue that remains when something is burned.
27. The habitation of wild animals.
28. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
29. A bachelor's degree in science.
31. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. Continuing forever or indefinitely.
42. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
43. Denuded of leaves.
45. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
47. Wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks.
48. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
49. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
54. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
56. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
62. A deficiency of red blood cells.
69. A motley assortment of things.
71. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
72. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
73. A compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive.
75. The bill in a restaurant.
76. Take in solid food.
77. A great raja.
78. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
3. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
4. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
5. American novelist (1909-1955).
6. An analgesic for mild pain.
7. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
8. A lake in northwestern Russia.
9. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
10. Enthusiastic approval.
11. Woman whose dancing beguiled Herod into giving her the head of John the Baptist.
12. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
13. Silkworm moths.
14. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
22. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
24. Tag the base runner to get him out.
26. Lean end of the neck.
30. An upright that is a member in a door or window frame.
32. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
36. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
37. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
38. Of or like a cecum.
39. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
40. Liquid excretory product.
41. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
44. Remove offensive capability from.
46. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
52. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
53. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
55. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
57. Squash bugs.
58. Make children.
60. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
63. Largest known toad species.
64. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
65. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
66. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
67. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
68. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
70. An accountant certified by the state.
74. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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