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1. An informal term for a father.
5. A thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery.
12. The last (12th) month of the year.
15. An elaborate song for solo voice.
16. A town in central Pennsylvania.
17. The capital and largest city of Japan.
18. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
19. Not prepared or vigilant.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923).
25. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
27. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
29. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Any object that radiates energy.
36. To patch up or renovate.
40. Liquid excretory product.
41. The act of using.
42. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
45. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
46. Covered with paving material.
49. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
51. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. A large number or amount.
54. Lacking excess flesh.
56. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
58. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
67. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. Produced by a manufacturing process.
74. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
76. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
77. A primeval personification of air and breath.
78. The convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place.
79. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. A kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles.
7. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
8. A long-handled edge tool with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper.
9. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
10. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
11. A genus of Chinchillidae.
12. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
13. At or constituting a border or edge.
14. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
22. A fraudulent business scheme.
24. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990).
30. The selling of something purchased.
33. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
34. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
35. A state of abeyance or suspended business.
37. A morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
43. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
47. Shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
50. A member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia.
55. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
59. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
61. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
62. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
64. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
65. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
66. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
68. Characteristic of false pride.
69. By bad luck.
71. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
72. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
75. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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