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1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. An organized body of related information.
12. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Divination by the letters of a name.
17. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
18. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
19. A painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe.
20. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
22. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
24. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
25. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. A medium to dark brownish yellow color.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
45. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
46. A conversation between two persons.
48. A doctor's degree in education.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
56. A long narrow depression in a surface.
57. An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another.
59. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
60. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
61. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
63. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
67. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
71. Large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind.
72. Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.
73. A haulage contractor.
75. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
76. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
77. A town in central Pennsylvania.
78. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. The basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe.
5. (Babylonian) The sky god.
6. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific.
7. Type genus of the Amiidae.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
10. A white trivalent metallic element.
11. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
12. Type genus of the Apidae.
13. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
14. The act of scanning.
21. Wear away.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
30. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
31. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
35. A port city in southwestern Iran.
36. In a bald manner.
38. Losing color.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
40. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
43. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
44. An informal term for a state of depression.
47. The brother of your father or mother.
50. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
52. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
53. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
54. Of or belonging to an aecium.
55. Australasian kingfishers.
58. A person responsible for hiring workers.
62. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
64. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
65. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
66. Catch sight of.
68. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
69. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
70. A yearning for something or to do something.
74. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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