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1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. Take the place of.
12. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
15. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
16. Gopher tortoises.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
18. South African term for `boss'.
20. A quantity of no importance.
21. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
23. A form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball v 1.
24. A castrated tomcat.
26. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
27. The oily secretion of the sebaceous glands.
30. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
33. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
34. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
37. Large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws.
39. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
41. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
42. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
43. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
45. English poet and literary critic (1822-1888).
47. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
50. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. In an unnatural eery manner.
57. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
60. A squeaking sound.
63. Form by carving.
64. A sharp blow.
67. Type genus of the Amiidae.
71. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
72. Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers.
73. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
74. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
75. An Asian river.
76. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
2. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
3. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
4. 1/10 gram.
5. French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994).
6. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
7. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
8. An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members.
9. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
10. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
19. Having or denoting a high range.
22. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
25. The striking of one body against another.
28. Censure severely or angrily.
29. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
31. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
32. Make amendments to.
35. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
36. Permitting leaks or leakage.
38. A narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine).
40. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
44. Expel, as of gases and odors.
46. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
53. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
54. A driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip.
55. Covered with scabs.
56. A former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders).
58. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
59. (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis.
61. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
65. An established custom.
66. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
68. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
69. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
70. Characteristic of a mob.
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