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1. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
4. The quantity broken.
12. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
15. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
16. Small free-swimming tunicates.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
18. A lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels.
20. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
21. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
22. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
27. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
36. Shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg.
40. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
42. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
43. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
45. Prepare for a military confrontation.
46. A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. Lower in esteem.
53. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
56. A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle).
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
61. A mountain in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast.
64. Of or relating to the spleen.
69. A city in Veneto on the River Adige.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
74. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
76. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
77. Type genus of the Ranidae.
78. Cause to break up or function, as of groups and organizations.
79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
2. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
3. Largest crested screamer.
4. Divulge information or secrets.
5. A column of light (as from a beacon).
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A genus of Indriidae.
8. The capital and largest city of Nepal.
9. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
10. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. Of a pale purple color.
13. One of the common people.
14. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
19. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
23. Unknown god.
24. Lean end of the neck.
29. Something that remunerates.
31. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
33. (Irish) The sea personified.
34. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
35. (used in combination) Dominated or obsessed by.
37. A stringed instrument of India.
38. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. Chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs.
52. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
54. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
55. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
57. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
59. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
62. A Russian river.
63. Extremely robust.
65. A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.
66. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
67. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
68. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
70. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
71. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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