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1. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
4. Hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. Used of a single unit or thing.
16. One species.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Providing enjoyment.
19. Of or relating to or characteristic of Algerian or its inhabitants.
20. Tag the base runner to get him out.
21. Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.
23. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
25. A studio especially for an artist or designer.
26. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913).
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
31. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
38. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Water frozen in the solid state.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. Large scissors with strong blades.
48. A resident of Alabama.
51. A member of the eastern branch of the Sioux.
53. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
55. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
59. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
64. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
66. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
67. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
68. A variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation.
70. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
71. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
72. A worker who is hired to perform a job.
73. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
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1. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
2. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
3. East Indian annual erect herb.
4. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
5. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
6. An athlete who plays basketball.
7. (informal) Of the highest quality.
8. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
9. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
10. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
11. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
12. Obvious and dull.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
22. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
24. A master's degree in education.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. Transient cessation of respiration.
30. (Norse mythology) Wife of Loki.
32. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
33. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
34. Lower in esteem.
35. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
37. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
40. Make less active or intense.
41. Having two axes.
44. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
46. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
47. Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected).
49. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
50. Sea catfishes.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. The skin that covers the top of the head.
56. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
57. To fix or set securely or deeply.
58. (Scot) A leather strap for punishing children.
60. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
61. A town in north central Oklahoma.
62. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
63. English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829).
65. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
69. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
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