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1. Armor plate that protects the chest.
5. Enclosed in a basin.
12. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
15. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
16. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
17. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
18. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
19. A homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets.
20. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
21. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
22. The residue that remains when something is burned.
24. Of or relating to nutrition.
26. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
29. Before noon.
31. Not only so, but.
32. A particular environment or walk of life.
35. (Irish) The sea personified.
37. Used of the language of the deaf.
39. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
40. The time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment.
43. Divulge information or secrets.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. Used of decomposing oils or fats.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. Make attractive or lovable.
53. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
55. A person who is physically weak and ineffectual.
57. Someone who dwells in a cave.
58. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. The medieval dialects of Langue d'oc.
64. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
67. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
68. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596).
71. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
72. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
76. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
77. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
78. Conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. A river in southeastern France.
4. A drink made of beer and lemonade.
5. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. An utterance made by exhaling audibly.
8. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
9. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
10. A city in northwestern Turkey.
11. Speak out against.
12. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
13. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
25. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
27. 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.
28. The capital of Bahrain.
30. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
33. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
34. A native or inhabitant of Crete.
36. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
38. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
41. Sour or bitter in taste.
42. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
44. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
48. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
50. Clothing for the head.
51. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
54. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
56. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
59. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
62. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
63. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
65. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
66. God of love and erotic desire.
69. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
70. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
73. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
74. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
75. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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