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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. A member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States.
12. A light touch or stroke.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
19. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
20. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
22. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
33. United States writer (1871-1900).
34. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
38. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
40. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
41. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
42. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
43. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
51. A movable barrier used in motor racing.
53. Hoop that covers a wheel.
54. Towards the side away from the wind.
55. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
56. Either extremity of something that has length.
59. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
61. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
63. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
65. A bluish shade of green.
66. Fallow deer.
69. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. A man who serves as a sailor.
72. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
73. A state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal.
76. A small vessel for travel on water.
77. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
78. German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923).
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
4. Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity.
5. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
6. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
7. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
8. Adult female chicken.
9. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
10. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
21. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
23. The amount a salary is increased.
25. In bed.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
29. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
31. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
32. A populous province in northeastern China.
35. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
36. A dark purplish red.
37. Ground snakes.
39. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
44. How long something has existed.
45. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
46. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
48. An island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa.
49. Unable to find your way.
50. A resident of Arkansas.
52. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
57. Consider or hold as true.
58. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
60. United States chemist (1839-1903).
62. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
64. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
67. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
68. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
70. A local computer network for communication between computers.
74. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
75. Being one more than one.
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