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1. Ring loudly and deeply, as of bells.
5. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
12. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
15. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
16. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
17. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
18. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
19. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
20. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
21. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
23. United States sculptor (born in 1904).
25. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
28. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
30. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. The state of cohering.
37. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
39. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
41. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
42. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
43. Yellowwood trees or shrubs.
45. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
48. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
49. Failing to detonate.
50. Careful and diligent in the use of resources.
52. A larval frog or toad.
54. Up to the immediate present.
57. Feeling mild pleasurable excitement.
58. North American bluebirds.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. A communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc.
67. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
68. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
74. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
76. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
77. The act of using.
78. Small genus of shrubs and subshrubs of western United States having flowers that change color as they mature.
79. A light touch or stroke.
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1. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. The seventh month of the civil year.
4. A nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal.
5. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
6. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
7. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
8. (British) Your grandmother.
9. Genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere.
10. Relieve from military service.
11. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
12. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
13. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
14. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
26. A farewell remark.
27. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
29. Belonging to some prior time.
31. A switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children.
32. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
34. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
35. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
36. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
38. A traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat.
40. An expression of approval and commendation.
44. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
46. Used for filling cracks or holes in a surface.
47. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
51. Not excessive or extreme.
53. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
55. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
56. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
59. The ossicle between the malleus and the stapes.
60. Make amends for.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
64. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
65. God of love and erotic desire.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. (Irish) The sea personified.
70. Goddess of fate.
71. Being two more than fifty.
75. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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