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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Type genus of the Ascaphidae.
12. Preserve of crushed fruit.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the army or air force or marines ranking above a corporal.
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
20. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
21. One of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participates in a group organization).
23. Make less active or intense.
24. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
28. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
31. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
32. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
36. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
37. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
41. A small island.
44. A dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland.
46. A meter that shows mileage traversed.
49. Not in good physical or mental health.
50. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
51. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
52. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
54. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
56. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
58. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
61. A foot traveler.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
71. (Greek mythology) Wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
72. Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants.
73. The fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear.
75. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
76. On or toward the lee.
77. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
78. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
6. Driven insane.
7. Lacking gonads.
8. The foot of a human being.
9. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
10. Cause to lose one's nerve.
11. Indicating the most important performer or role.
12. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
13. Chief port of Yemen.
14. God of death.
19. The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors.
22. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
25. A member of the British order of honor.
26. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
27. A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.
29. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
30. Shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
34. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
35. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
38. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
42. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
43. A small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
48. Shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer.
53. Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth.
55. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
57. Lower in esteem.
59. Involving the entire earth.
60. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
62. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
63. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
64. Follower of Rastafarianism.
66. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
70. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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