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1. The unit of frequency.
4. An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.
11. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
15. Made warm or hot.
16. Liable to sin.
17. Very dark black.
18. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
20. Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring).
21. Clean or orderly.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Rock, sway, or nod.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
30. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
34. An informal term for a father.
37. A police officer who investigates crimes.
41. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
42. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
46. Not widely known.
47. Offering fun and gaiety.
48. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. Anything that contributes causally to a result.
57. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
59. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
61. Music performed for dancing the polka.
65. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
70. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
73. A master's degree in business.
74. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
75. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
77. Tag the base runner to get him out.
78. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
79. Word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
2. Type genus of the Percidae.
3. The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
4. An accountant certified by the state.
5. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
6. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
7. A fraudulent business scheme.
8. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
9. Used of a single unit or thing.
10. (informal) Under the influence of narcotics.
11. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
12. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
13. A small vessel for travel on water.
14. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
19. Capital of Swaziland.
23. Disparaging terms for the common people.
25. A state in the western United States.
27. Unknown god.
29. The month following July and preceding September.
32. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
33. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
35. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
36. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
44. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
45. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
50. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
52. Not out.
55. A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat.
56. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
58. United States author (born 1932).
60. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
62. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Jordan's port.
66. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
67. Serving as or forming a base.
68. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
69. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
71. Outer space as viewed from the earth.
72. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
76. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos.
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