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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
12. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position.
17. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
18. The residue that remains when something is burned.
19. Be fully aware or cognizant of.
20. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
22. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. A biter who takes dainty repeated bites.
28. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
29. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
36. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
40. Ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column.
41. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
42. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
43. Expel, as of gases and odors.
44. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
45. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
46. The basic unit of money in Sweden.
47. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
49. A superior grade of black tea.
52. A common cyst of the skin.
53. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
56. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
59. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
62. Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks.
64. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
65. Chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants.
69. Of or relating to the velum.
72. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
73. A kind of person.
74. Discrimination in favor of the able-bodied.
76. In or of the present month.
77. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
78. A festival featuring African-American culture.
79. An endorsement.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
4. Seed of a pea plant.
5. The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations.
6. Of or relating to the kidneys.
7. Being six more than fifty.
8. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
9. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
10. A New England state.
11. German bacteriologist who found a `magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915).
12. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
13. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
14. A Russian river.
21. A studio especially for an artist or designer.
23. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
25. With rapid movements.
27. A public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage.
30. Tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling.
32. Electric underground railway.
33. (used of grass or vegetation) "uncut grass".
34. Destroyed physically or morally.
35. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
37. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
38. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
39. Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking.
48. City in Sudan.
50. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
51. A genus of Vespertilionidae.
54. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
55. A periodic paperback publication.
57. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
58. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
60. Administer an oil or ointment to.
61. Stopping short and refusing to go on.
63. Squash bugs.
66. Long and thin and often limp.
67. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
68. (Old Testament) Third son of Adam.
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. Being one more than nine.
75. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
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