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1. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
4. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
11. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
15. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
16. The grasses.
17. Large American feline resembling a lion.
18. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
19. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. A doctor's degree in religion.
24. Restricting the scope or freedom of action.
26. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
29. Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears.
30. A motley assortment of things.
32. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
33. Being or passing over or across the sea.
39. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
40. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
42. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
45. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
48. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
49. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
50. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
51. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
52. Before noon.
55. A salt or ester of xanthic acid.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. A certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee.
71. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
72. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
74. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
75. Type genus of the Amiidae.
76. A genus of Scolopacidae.
77. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
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1. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
2. The act of rising upward into the air.
3. Lacking a label or tag.
4. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
5. The state of being under the control of another person.
6. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
7. Water frozen in the solid state.
8. Made of fir or pine.
9. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
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. A conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence.
12. A natural protective covering of the body.
13. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
14. Japanese architect (born in 1913).
20. Possessing material wealth.
22. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931).
25. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
27. Immediately past.
28. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
31. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
34. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
35. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
36. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
37. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
38. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
43. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
44. Singing jazz.
46. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
47. That is going in.
53. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. A genus of Accipitridae.
57. A populous province in northeastern China.
59. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
60. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
62. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
64. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
65. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
66. A genus of Accipitridae.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
73. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
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