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1. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
4. Medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
16. A sandal with flat heels and an upper of woven leather straps.
17. An unforeseen obstacle.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. The outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue.
20. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
21. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
23. Of wines, fruit, cheeses.
25. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted.
29. Jordan's port.
32. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
35. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
42. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
43. Brain corals.
45. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
46. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
47. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
48. Pluck with tweezers.
50. Showing deference.
51. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
53. In the Roman calendar.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
59. Jordan's port.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
70. An iconic mental representation.
72. The month following February and preceding April.
73. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
74. Excessively agitated.
76. A master's degree in fine arts.
77. The seed of the cereal grass.
78. Carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life.
79. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
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1. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
2. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
3. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
4. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
5. Hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan.
6. Not reflecting light.
7. Beside one another in a row or rank.
8. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
9. Sour or bitter in taste.
10. Prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976).
11. (used of hair) Neat and tidy.
12. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
13. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
14. The address where a person lives.
22. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
27. Lower in esteem.
30. A festival featuring African-American culture.
31. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
34. The smallest detectable sensation.
36. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
37. Having the head uncovered.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
40. Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen.
41. (usually in the plural) A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.
44. Of or relating to or near the nares.
49. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
55. A villainous Jew in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist".
57. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
58. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
60. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
61. A primeval personification of air and breath.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
68. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
69. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
71. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
75. 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.
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