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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
12. The fatty flesh of eel.
15. An informal debt instrument.
16. Small genus of chiefly American herbs.
17. Being one more than forty.
18. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
19. Humorously vulgar.
20. An ordered reference standard.
22. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
24. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
26. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
28. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
30. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
34. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
37. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
40. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
42. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
43. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
44. Belgian architect and leader in art nouveau architecture (1861-1947).
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
48. Black tropical American cuckoo.
49. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
51. The bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint.
54. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
57. Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966).
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
67. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
68. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
72. Aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning.
73. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
74. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
75. English essayist (1775-1834).
76. Arranged or displayed systematically in table form.
77. An informal term for a father.
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1. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
2. A small vessel for travel on water.
3. Having three dimensions.
4. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
5. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
6. A three-year law degree.
7. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
8. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
9. Either extremity of something that has length.
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
12. Praise, glorify, or honor.
13. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
14. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
21. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
23. Void of thought or knowledge.
25. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
27. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
29. Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically.
31. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
32. Noisy quarrel.
33. In a weak and unconvincing manner.
35. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
39. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
41. The capital of Croatia.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605).
50. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
52. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
53. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
55. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum.
61. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
62. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
63. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
64. Located at or near the back of an animal.
65. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
66. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. Characteristic of a mob.
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