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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Number the pages of a book or manuscript.
12. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Having development checked or reversed.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. Australian evergreen shrubs.
19. Of girls or women.
21. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
22. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
24. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
27. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. (of market animals) Made ready for market.
34. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
39. Having deserted a cause or principle.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
45. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
47. Type genus of the Amiidae.
49. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
56. The seventh month of the civil year.
59. A master's degree in library science.
62. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
63. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
66. A light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally.
67. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
69. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
71. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
72. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
73. The capital city of the Chinese province of Gansu on the Yellow River.
75. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
76. Towards the side away from the wind.
77. A white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug.
78. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
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1. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
2. A city in northwestern Syria.
3. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
4. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
5. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
6. The father of your father or mother.
7. That is to say.
8. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
9. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
10. Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else.
11. Give an education to.
12. Set down according to a plan.
13. In a competent capable manner.
14. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
20. A historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. A master's degree in fine arts.
28. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
31. A state in southeastern United States.
32. Suggestive of the supernatural.
33. Bar temporarily.
35. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
36. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
37. Pepsi Cola is a trademarked cola.
40. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
48. United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957).
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. United States historian (1885-1981).
55. Be a hindrance or obstacle to.
57. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
58. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
60. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
61. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
64. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
65. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
68. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
70. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
74. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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