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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. A miserly person.
12. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
15. The month following February and preceding April.
16. An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity.
17. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
18. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
20. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire.
21. Remaining after all deductions.
22. A quantity of no importance.
23. Wood of a pecan tree.
25. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
28. Give retouches to.
29. Liquid excretory product.
32. Before noon.
33. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
36. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
39. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
40. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
42. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
43. A power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt).
45. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
47. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
48. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Enthusiastic approval.
52. Causing nasal discharge.
57. Chief port of Yemen.
58. A midwestern state on the Great Plains.
62. A port in southern Sweden.
65. Dyed with henna.
66. Render capable or able for some task.
70. A master's degree in business.
71. Large European dormouse.
72. English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896).
74. A decree that prohibits something.
75. An informal term for a father.
76. An active volcano in southeastern Colombia in the Andes.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. God of death.
3. A small nail.
4. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
5. A kind of person.
6. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A base hit on which the batter scores a run.
8. A very short time (as the time it takes to blink once).
9. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
10. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
11. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
12. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. (used with count nouns) Two considered together.
19. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
24. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
26. Very attentive or observant.
27. A colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin.
30. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
31. A boxlike container in a piece of furniture.
34. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
35. An inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. A palace and fortress built in Granada by the Moslems in the Middle Ages.
46. The quality possessed by something with a great price or value.
51. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
53. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
54. Either extremity of something that has length.
55. Hear or try a court case anew.
56. A peninsula in southwestern Europe.
59. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
64. Set down according to a plan.
67. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
68. Not in good physical or mental health.
69. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
73. A state in midwestern United States.
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