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1. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
4. A type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water).
12. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
15. Estrangement from god.
16. (especially of plants) Developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light.
17. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
18. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
20. Declare invalid.
21. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
23. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
25. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
26. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
27. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
28. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
30. A native-born Israeli.
33. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
36. Howler monkeys.
41. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
43. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
44. A primeval personification of air and breath.
45. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
47. Weapons considered collectively.
48. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
50. A transuranic element.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
58. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
61. Small genus of succulent annual herbs found on sandy shores of North America and Europe.
63. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
65. A former Turkish term of respect.
69. Acting like a clown or buffoon.
70. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
73. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
74. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
76. American novelist (1909-1955).
77. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
78. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
79. Telephone line (Wide Area Telephone Service).
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1. (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.
2. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
3. A rounded projection or protuberance.
4. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
5. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
6. A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
7. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
8. The twelfth month of the civil year.
9. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. Having or covered with leaves.
12. The limits within which something can be effective.
13. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. Of or relating to the island republic of Nauru or its residents.
22. A town in northern Egypt.
24. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
29. A bachelor's degree in science.
31. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
32. Tired of the world.
34. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
35. The seventh month of the civil year.
37. A member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon.
38. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
39. Informal terms for a mother.
40. Leave immediately.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
49. Small crude shelter used as a dwelling.
51. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
53. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate.
54. A state in southeastern United States.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
57. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
59. French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905).
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
67. Having relatively few calories.
68. In the Roman calendar.
71. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
72. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
75. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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