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1. The unit of frequency.
4. Resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy.
12. An enclosed space.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A master's degree in business.
19. A rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.
20. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
21. A genus of Ploceidae.
23. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
25. German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome.
26. An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor.
27. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
30. A small replica of a person.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. Half the width of an em.
36. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
40. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
42. The face or front of a building.
43. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
44. Offering fun and gaiety.
47. Morally bad or wrong.
48. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
49. A New England state.
50. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
51. Either extremity of something that has length.
52. An advantageous purchase.
57. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
58. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
60. Short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of south and southeast Asia.
63. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
65. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
69. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
72. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
73. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
74. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
76. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
77. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
78. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
79. Cause to go somewhere.
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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
5. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. A group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales.
7. United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882).
8. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
9. In an ideal manner.
10. Composed of or covered with relatively large particles.
11. Made warm or hot.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
22. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time.
24. Having two faces or fronts.
28. Direct in spatial dimensions.
29. A proud stiff pompous gait.
31. Goods carried by a large vehicle.
32. Easy to handle or use or manage.
34. Erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds.
37. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
38. A state in the eastern United States.
39. Covered with a firm surface.
41. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. The mints.
53. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. Act or move at high speed.
56. Imperial moths.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
62. Having been read.
64. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
66. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
67. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
68. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
70. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
71. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
75. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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