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1. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
4. A machine for performing calculations automatically.
12. Considerate and solicitous care.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Old World buntings.
17. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
18. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
19. Devoid of physical sensation.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
24. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
32. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
36. Attribute to a source or cause.
39. Of or relating to or involving an area.
41. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
42. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
43. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
44. Unusually short.
46. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. A rapid bustling commotion.
49. (prefix) Outside or outer.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
54. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
56. Carnivorous fresh and salt water fishes.
57. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
60. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
63. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
64. Very dark black.
65. Common Indian weaverbird.
69. Not final or absolute.
73. The act of scanning.
74. Aimlessly drifting.
76. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
77. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
78. Accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
79. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
2. A narrow way or road.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. Give over.
5. The ending of a series or sequence.
6. A master's degree in business.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
9. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
10. (Old Testament) King of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC).
11. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
12. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
13. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
14. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
22. The sacred city of Lamaism.
25. Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences.
27. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
29. Of or relating to or containing barium.
30. Selected as the best.
31. A master's degree in library science.
33. A port city in southwestern Iran.
34. A corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation.
37. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
38. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
40. A friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets.
50. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
52. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
53. Malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet.
55. (Babylonian) The sky god.
58. Any plant of the genus Erica.
59. A member of the North American Indian people of Oregon.
61. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
62. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. The basic unit of money in China.
68. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
70. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
71. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
72. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
75. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
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