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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Of or relating to Passover or Easter.
11. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
17. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Having or showing profound knowledge.
20. Characterized by rising prices.
21. A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner).
24. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
27. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
30. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
31. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters.
40. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
51. An unofficial association of people or groups.
52. A doctor's degree in optometry.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. By bad luck.
58. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
61. The mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
68. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
72. An associate degree in applied science.
73. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
74. A hormone secreted by the pancreas.
75. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
76. How long something has existed.
77. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses.
78. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. Cry plaintively.
2. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties.
3. God of death.
4. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
5. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
6. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
7. An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present.
8. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century.
9. On or toward the lee.
10. Having leadership guidance.
11. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
12. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
13. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
14. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
22. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
26. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
28. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
29. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
32. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
35. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure.
39. Before noon.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
42. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
53. An angry dispute.
56. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
57. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
60. 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.
62. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
63. Something that remunerates.
65. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
66. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
67. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
69. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
70. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
71. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
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