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1. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
5. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
12. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
15. Not final or absolute.
16. Of textiles.
17. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
18. Lacking motor coordination.
20. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. True lizards.
26. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A light informal meal.
33. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
34. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
37. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. An associate degree in nursing.
41. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
43. A polite name for any woman.
45. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
47. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
51. Coextensive with the order Pholidota.
52. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
55. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
62. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
63. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
64. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
68. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
71. Make less active or intense.
72. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
73. A knight honored for valor.
75. A light touch or stroke.
76. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
77. A person who is interned.
78. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. Type genus of the Anatidae.
2. (Middle East) Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
3. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
4. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
5. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
6. Considerate and solicitous care.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
9. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
10. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. A state in north central United States.
13. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
14. Not only so, but.
19. Any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods.
21. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
25. Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.
27. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
29. (South African) An ear of corn.
31. A town in southwestern Idaho.
32. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
35. (Arthurian legend) A nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table.
36. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
42. A worthless message.
44. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
46. Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. Cause to grow thin or weak.
50. Tear or be torn violently.
53. English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812).
54. An implement used to erase something.
57. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
58. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
60. Intelligence derived from non-communications electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources).
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. A quantity of no importance.
66. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
67. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
69. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
70. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
74. 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.
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