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1. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
5. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
11. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
15. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
16. Founder of Buddhism.
17. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
18. Absent without permission.
19. A severe or trying experience.
20. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
21. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
23. Be earlier in time.
25. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
27. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
28. Lighted only by stars.
31. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
35. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
39. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
44. One of the twelve Apostles (first century).
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. An act or expression of criticism and censure.
49. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
51. Of or relating to or containing balsam.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
61. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
63. With the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge.
67. 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.
70. A primeval personification of air and breath.
71. The last (12th) month of the year.
72. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
74. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
75. Take in solid food.
76. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
77. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
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1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
3. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
4. A degree or grade of excellence or worth.
5. A loss of will power.
6. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
7. A doctor's degree in education.
8. The content of cognition.
9. The largest city of China.
10. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
11. Serving cart for serving tea or light refreshments.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
14. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
22. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
24. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
30. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
32. Take to be the case or to be true.
33. Lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle.
34. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
36. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
37. One of the common people.
38. Common black European thrush.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.
45. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
48. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa.
50. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
52. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
55. A formal expression of praise.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. An extended area of land.
59. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
60. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
62. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
64. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
65. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
66. (prefix) Within.
68. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
69. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
73. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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