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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. Golden Italian liqueur flavored with herbs.
12. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
19. Someone who engages in debate.
20. A city in western Germany.
22. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. The provision of something by issuing it (usually in quantity).
27. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
28. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
29. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
33. Tasting sour like a lemon.
37. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
39. Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year.
40. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
41. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
43. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
44. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
48. 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.
52. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
53. A colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent.
54. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
57. 10 grams.
58. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
59. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
64. Immediately past.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
72. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
73. (informal) Some insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon.
75. The eighth month of the civil year.
76. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. Highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era.
78. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. The mother of Jesus.
4. The father of your father or mother.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
7. (Welsh) A warrior god.
8. A strong emotion.
9. (grammar) Of or relating to the aorist tense.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
12. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
13. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
14. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
21. Pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine.
23. A notable achievement.
26. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
30. Of the color of cream.
31. Costing 5 dollars.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
35. Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects.
36. A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.
38. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
45. Become ground down or deteriorate.
46. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
47. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
49. A kind of person.
50. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
56. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
60. In bed.
61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
62. Obtained from various tropical plants.
63. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
65. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
66. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
67. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
69. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
70. Young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf.
74. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
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