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1. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
4. A large continuous extent of land.
12. (British) A title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight.
15. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
16. Of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living.
17. A former French coin of low denomination.
18. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
20. Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656).
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
22. Small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates.
23. Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job.
25. A large number or amount.
28. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
30. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
31. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
32. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
34. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
39. English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723).
40. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
41. Make understand.
43. Of a pale purple color.
45. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
48. Type and only genus of the family Esocidae.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
52. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
55. A streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine.
57. Supply or feed to surfeit.
60. Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I.
63. Having your services engaged for.
67. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
68. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
70. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
71. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
72. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
74. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
75. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
76. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
77. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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1. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
2. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
3. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
4. A tight-fitting garment that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles).
5. A large fleet.
6. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
7. A doctor's degree in music.
8. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
9. At right angles to the center line of a ship.
10. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
11. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
12. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
13. Type genus of the Soleidae.
14. A primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand.
19. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
24. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
26. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
27. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
29. A keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere.
33. Big-eyed scad.
35. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
36. A plant fiber used for making rope.
37. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
38. Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers.
42. A synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain.
44. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
46. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
47. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
53. Strike with a flat object.
54. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
56. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
58. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
59. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
61. On or toward the lee.
62. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
64. God of the Underworld.
65. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
66. A share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given.
69. A rapid bustling commotion.
73. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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