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1. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction.
5. With shoulders drooping.
12. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
15. Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.
16. Someone released on probation or on parole.
17. (informal) Of the highest quality.
18. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
19. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
20. Being derived from.
22. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
24. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
25. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
27. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
29. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
32. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
37. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
41. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
43. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
44. Abnormally enlarged or twisted blood vessel or lymphatic vessel.
48. The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis.
50. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
51. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
52. A separate part of a whole.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. Closely related.
62. New Guinea echidnas.
66. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
67. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
70. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
71. Perceive sound.
73. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
74. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
75. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
76. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
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1. Any broad thin expanse or surface.
2. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
3. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
4. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
7. Accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
8. Antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
9. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses.
10. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
11. A young woman making her debut into society.
12. A Nilotic language.
13. Sour or bitter in taste.
14. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
21. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
31. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
33. Jordan's port.
34. Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation.
35. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
38. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
39. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
40. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
42. A natural talent.
45. An Asian country under the control of China.
46. City in central Iran.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. (Britain) Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea.
53. Of or like a cecum.
54. German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969).
55. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
56. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
58. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
60. A substance that can be burned to provide heat or power.
61. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
63. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
64. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
65. On or toward the lee.
68. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
69. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
72. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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