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1. A unit of pressure.
4. Liable to a fine.
11. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
15. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Drug (trade name Isuprel) used to treat bronchial asthma and to stimulate the heart.
17. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
18. Being one more than nine.
19. Relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (corresponds to the continental slope).
20. Avatar of Vishnu.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. Closed with a lace.
28. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
31. An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain.
35. Report or maintain.
40. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
41. Informal terms for money.
42. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
47. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
48. Biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
53. Being nine more than forty.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. One or some or every or all without specification.
58. A microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time.
61. Of surpassing excellence.
64. A hormone secreted by the pancreas.
68. Any high mountain.
69. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
72. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
73. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
74. A sudden desire.
76. A notable achievement.
77. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
78. (Britain) Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea.
79. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. An honorary arts degree.
2. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
3. An island northwest of Wales.
4. A trivial lie.
5. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
6. A widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers.
7. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
8. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
9. (horseshoes) The throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake.
10. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
11. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. Capital and largest city of Togo.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
22. A loud harsh or strident noise.
24. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. Big-eyed scad.
32. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
33. Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
34. Wait in hiding to attack.
36. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
37. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
38. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
45. Clouding of the natural lens of the eye.
49. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
50. A Loloish language.
54. A roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building.
57. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
59. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
60. A genus of Ploceidae.
62. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
63. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
65. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
66. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
67. A quantity of no importance.
70. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
71. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
75. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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