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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
11. A Loloish language.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
17. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. Of or concerning Qatar.
21. A fraudulent business scheme.
23. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
24. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
25. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
28. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
36. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
38. A city of southeastern Mexico.
40. (physiology) Of nerves and nerve impulses.
43. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
44. Disparaging terms for small people.
46. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
49. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
54. Of southern Europe.
55. A flagellate that is the cause of the frequently fatal fish disease costiasis.
58. Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904).
62. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
63. An extinct ancient language of unknown affinities.
67. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
69. Of or relating to the diet.
70. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
71. Call forth.
74. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
75. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
76. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
77. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
5. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
6. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
7. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
10. 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.
11. The sign language used in the United States.
12. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
13. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
14. A city in northwestern Syria.
20. Jordan's port.
22. Very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams.
26. `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially Roman or Orthodox Catholic).
27. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
29. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
30. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
32. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
33. Placed crosswise.
34. Biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
41. That is to say.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. Having a sophisticated charm.
47. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
48. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
50. A large number or amount.
51. A genus of Mustelidae.
52. (of fabrics) Having soft nap produced by brushing.
53. The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
56. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
57. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
59. A song that was formerly popular.
60. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
61. The combined stakes of the betters.
64. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
65. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
66. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
68. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
72. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
73. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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