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1. The month following October and preceding December.
4. Associated with academia or an academy.
12. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
17. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
18. An unofficial association of people or groups.
19. Not fitting closely.
20. Tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song.
22. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
24. Extreme mental retardation.
26. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
28. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
30. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
32. Lying in or toward the east.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
40. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
44. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
46. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
48. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
49. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
50. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
54. Being nine more than ninety.
56. English monk and scholar (672-735).
57. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
59. Wholly absorbed as in thought.
62. A former Turkish term of respect.
64. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
67. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
68. Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood.
72. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
73. Raise to a higher energy level.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
76. (of fabrics and paper) Grown dark in color over time.
77. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
2. Toward the mouth or oral region.
3. Painted beauty and red admiral.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
6. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
7. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
8. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
9. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
10. Being nine more than forty.
11. A warning against certain acts.
12. A person who participates in a meeting.
13. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
14. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
21. To come or go into.
23. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
25. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
27. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
29. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
31. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
33. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
34. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
41. A proportion multiplied by 100.
42. (combining form) Indicating radiation or radioactivity.
43. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
45. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
47. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
51. Be able to spare or give up.
52. Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks.
53. United States writer (born in 1923).
55. An angular shape made by folding.
58. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
60. A surface burn.
61. Being derived from.
63. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
70. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
71. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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