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1. The act of catching an object with the hands.
5. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
12. An erratic deflection from an intended course.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. (sports) With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level.
17. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
18. Make editorial changes (in a text).
19. Rendered competent through trial and experience.
20. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
21. An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money.
23. Coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food).
25. Not divisible by two.
28. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
34. Genus of tropical American timber trees.
36. Having facets.
39. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
40. Deadly or sinister.
42. Rate of revolution of a motor.
43. A local computer network for communication between computers.
46. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
48. Of or relating to or designating narcotics.
51. A republic in central Africa.
54. (botany) Especially of plant parts.
55. An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
61. The fourth month of the civil year.
63. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
70. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
73. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
74. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
75. Lacking fresh air.
76. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. A quantity of no importance.
3. Type genus of the Apidae.
4. Any disease-producing agent especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism.
5. Emotionally moved.
6. Report or maintain.
7. Vietnamese New Year.
8. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
9. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
10. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
11. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
12. A cruel and brutal fellow.
13. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
14. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
22. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
24. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
26. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
27. Coffee trees.
29. (trademark) A thin polyester film.
30. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
31. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
32. Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.
33. A proposal for an appropriate course of action.
35. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
37. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
38. Repeated too often.
41. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
45. The basic unit of money in Slovakia.
47. United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964).
49. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
50. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
52. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
53. A peninsula in southwestern Europe.
56. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
57. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
59. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
62. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
66. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
69. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
71. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
72. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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