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1. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny.
5. The sound made by a horse.
12. A quantity of money.
15. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
16. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
17. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
18. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
19. Curved rodlike motile bacterium.
20. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
21. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
23. A county in southeastern England.
25. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
29. The unit of plane angle adopted under the System International d'Unites.
32. (spoken slang) Unfashionable and boring.
34. Armor plate that protects the chest.
35. Jordan's port.
38. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
41. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
44. Before noon.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
48. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
49. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
50. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
52. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
67. A chronic drinker.
68. A person with the same name as another.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
72. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
73. A toilet in England.
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1. A piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments.
2. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
3. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
4. English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896).
5. A tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers.
6. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines.
7. To fix or set securely or deeply.
8. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
9. A fabric made by knitting.
10. The capital and largest city of Japan.
11. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
12. (all used chiefly with qualifiers `well' or `poorly' or `un-') Having received specific instruction.
13. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
14. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. Any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium.
26. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
30. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
31. Lacking in light.
33. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
39. A beautiful and graceful girl.
40. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
42. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
43. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
45. Related on the mother's side.
51. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
53. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
54. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
55. Lower in esteem.
56. Of or like a cecum.
57. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
58. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
60. God of love and erotic desire.
61. At any time.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
64. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
65. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
66. A young woman making her debut into society.
69. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
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