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1. An unforeseen obstacle.
5. The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
11. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
15. A quantity of no importance.
16. A small skullcap.
17. Type genus of the Anatidae.
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
20. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
21. A genus of Ploceidae.
23. Very dark black.
25. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
26. A former province of western France in the Loire valley.
30. Someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables.
36. A salt used especially in baking powder.
38. The act of using.
39. Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers.
41. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
42. Multicellular organisms having less-specialized cells than in the Metazoa.
45. The girl friend of a gangster.
47. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
48. Heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served.
50. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
54. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
55. British informal term.
57. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
60. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
63. (formal) By means of this.
65. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
69. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
71. (informal) Of the highest quality.
72. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
73. A factory where food is canned.
76. A small amount (especially of a drink).
77. A festival featuring African-American culture.
78. A lump on the body caused by a blow.
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1. The act of catching an object with the hands.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
4. (heraldry) Looking forward.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.
7. Found along western Atlantic coast.
8. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
9. A city of central China.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
11. An enclosed space.
12. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals.
13. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
14. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
22. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. Mouselike jumping rodent.
28. The commonest type of solidified lava.
29. Moderate or restrain.
31. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
32. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
33. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
34. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
35. Deciduous horn of a member of the deer family.
37. A unit of pressure.
40. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
43. A shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle.
44. Slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp.
46. In the recent past.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
52. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
56. United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927).
58. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
59. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
61. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
62. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
64. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
68. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings.
70. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
74. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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