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1. A French abbot.
5. Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
16. (stock market) Expecting prices to fall.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. In or of the present month.
19. Someone whose business is advertising.
20. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
23. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
24. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
26. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
28. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
33. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
37. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
39. A small island.
41. An aromatic balsam.
42. South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.
44. Tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit.
46. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
47. The bill in a restaurant.
48. Located at or near the back of an animal.
49. The seventh and last day of the week.
50. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
52. Closed with a lace.
54. The square of a body of any size of type.
56. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
57. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
61. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
64. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
66. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
67. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
69. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
70. Occurring at the beginning.
72. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
73. Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear.
76. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
77. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
78. The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true.
79. Serving as an essential component.
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1. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
2. Obvious and dull.
3. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
4. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
5. A port city in southwestern Iran.
6. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
7. Avatar of Vishnu.
8. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
9. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters.
10. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
11. Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet.
12. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
13. In bed.
14. An informal term for a father.
22. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
25. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
27. The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage.
29. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962.
30. Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens.
31. Type genus of the Soleidae.
32. (of animals) Fully developed.
34. A rugged box (usually made of wood).
35. (Greek mythology) A sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
36. A cloth having a crisscross design.
38. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
40. An internal representation of the world.
43. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
45. Consider as ideal.
51. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
53. A variety of leaf bug.
55. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
58. A small cut.
59. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
60. Loss of the ability to move a body part.
62. Not widely known.
63. Very dark black.
65. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
68. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
71. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
74. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
75. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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