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1. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
5. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
12. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
15. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
16. Sea catfishes.
17. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
18. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
19. Lack of attention and due care.
20. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
21. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
23. 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.
24. An island in the south Pacific.
26. A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful.
27. A card game for 2 players.
28. The act of escaping physically.
33. Supported and operated by the government of a state.
35. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
39. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
44. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
45. By bad luck.
48. Genus of Australian ladybugs.
51. A port city of northeastern Brazil on the Atlantic.
55. Not straightforward or candid.
57. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
61. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
66. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
67. A tributary of the Missouri River.
70. A master's degree in business.
71. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
72. Covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified.
73. A decree that prohibits something.
74. Water soaked soil.
75. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
2. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
3. A city in northwestern Syria.
4. The literary intelligentsia.
5. Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).
6. A strong emotion.
7. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
8. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
9. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
10. Relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk.
11. Cause to become detached or separated.
12. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
13. English architect (1746-1813).
14. Suggestive of the supernatural.
22. An official or legal cancellation.
25. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
29. English writer (1672-1729).
30. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. A town of Denmark in north central Jutland.
36. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
37. Mother goddess.
38. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
41. English monk and scholar (672-735).
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. A city of central China.
47. A new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court.
49. Having a systematic arrangement.
50. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
52. United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964).
53. A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. All the plant life in a particular region.
58. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
63. Wearing footgear.
64. The emotion of hate.
65. A quantity of no importance.
68. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
69. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
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